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<text id=93CT1367>
<title>
Tajikistan--Geography
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tajikistan
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: South Asia, between Uzbekistan and China
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 143,100 km2</l>
<l> land area: 142,700 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly smaller than Wisconsin</l>
</list>
<p>Land boundaries: total 3,651 km, Afghanistan 1,206 km, China
414 km, Kyrgyzstan 870 km, Uzbekistan 1,161 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
</p>
<p>Maritime claims: none; landlocked
</p>
<p>International disputes: boundary with China under dispute;
territorial dispute with Kyrgyzstan on northern boundary in
Isfara Valley area; Afghanistan's support to Islamic fighters in
Tajikistan's civil war
</p>
<p>Climate: midlatitude; semiarid to polar in Pamir Mountains
</p>
<p>Terrain: Pamir and Altay Mountains dominate landscape; western
Fergana Valley in north, Kafirnigan and Vakhsh Valleys in south
or southwest
</p>
<p>Natural resources: significant hydropower potential,
petroleum, uranium, mercury, brown coal, lead, zinc, antimony,
tungsten
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 6%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 23%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 0%</l>
<l> other: 71%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 6,940 km2 (1990)
</p>
<p>Environment: NA
</p>
<p>Note: landlocked
</p></body></article></text>