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Tajikistan
Dimensions and Borders
With an area of 143,100 square kilometers, Tajikistan is about
the same size as the state of Wisconsin. Its maximum east-to-west
extent is 700 kilometers, and its maximum north-to-south extent
is 350 kilometers. The country's highly irregular border is about
3,000 kilometers long, including 430 kilometers along the Chinese
border to the east and 1,030 kilometers along the frontier with
Afghanistan to the south. Most of the southern border with Afghanistan
is set by the Amu Darya (darya is the Persian word for
river) and its tributary the Panj River (Darya-ye Panj), which
has headwaters in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The other neighbors
are the former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan (to the west and
the north) and Kyrgyzstan (to the north).
Data as of March 1996
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