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    TAJIKISTAN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian sovietplay

    Synonyms:

    Republic of Tajikistan; Tadjik; Tadzhik; Tadzhikistan; Tajik; Tajikistan

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

    Meronyms (parts of "Tajikistan"):

    capital of Tajikistan; Dusanbe; Dushanbe; Dyushambe; Stalinabad (the capital of Tajikistan; formerly Stalinabad 1926-1991)

    Communism Peak; Mount Communism; Mount Garmo; Stalin Peak (the highest mountain peak in the Pamir Mountains; near the Chinese border in northeastern Tajikistan (24,590 feet high))

    Pamir Mountains; the Pamirs (a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China)

    Meronyms (members of "Tajikistan"):

    Tadzhik; Tajik (a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China)

    Holonyms ("Tajikistan" is a part of...):

    Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

    Holonyms ("Tajikistan" is a member of...):

    CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

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