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| | Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Tajikistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | As part of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan was initially grouped with what is now Uzbekistan in the Autonomous SSR of Tajikistan, but in 1929 was made a separate constituent republic. |
 | | The largest is Vorukh (exclave area between 95 and 130 km², population estimated between 23,000 and 29,000, 95% Tajiks and 5% Kyrgyz, distributed among 17 villages), located 45 km south of Isfara on the right bank of the Karafshin river, in Kyrgyz territory. |
 | | Despite democratic reforms since the end of its civil war in 1997, Tajikistan, the poorest of the former Soviet republics, remains economically isolated from the rest of the region and the world. |
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