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Transport in Tajikistan

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As of 2014 many highway and tunnel construction projects were underway or recently completed. Major projects include rehabilitation of the Dushanbe – Chanak (Uzbek border), Dushanbe – Kulma (Chinese border), Kurgan-Tube – Nizhny Pyanj (Afghan border) highways and construction of tunnels under the
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has invested approximately $ 720 million for infrastructure improvements in Tajikistan, including the rebuilding, widening and improvement of the road between Dushanbe and Khujand which as of August 2007 is proceeding using equipment, labor, and oversight from China.
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The total length of roads in the country is 27,800 kilometers, nearly all of which were built before 1991. Automobiles account for more than 90% of the total volume of passenger transportation and more than 80% of domestic freight transportation.
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with the central area of the country. Passenger transit through Tajikistan has been hindered by periodic failures of Tajik Railways to pay transit tariffs and by safety issues. Most international freight traffic is carried by train.
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which, as of May 2014, had regularly scheduled flights to such major cities as Almaty, Baku, Bishkek, Delhi, Dubai, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Kabul, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sharjah, Tehran, and Ürümqi among others.
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It is hoped that a 2009 agreement between the heads of state of Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan will modernize parts of Tajikistan's rail system to allow more trade between Central Asian countries.
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countries, was experiencing major development in its transportation sector. Beginning in 2005, a series of major transportation projects begun. The first such project, the
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Shar-Shar auto tunnel links Tajikistan to China, The 2.3km Shar-Shar car tunnel linking Tajikistan and China opened to traffic on Aug. 30, Siyavush Mekhtan, 2009-09-03
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from Uzbekistan to Dushanbe and transport gas between points in Uzbekistan across northwestern Tajikistan. Tajikistan also has 38 kilometers of oil pipeline.
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In 2009 Tajikistan had 26 airports, 18 of which had paved runways, of which two had runways longer than 3,000 meters. Tajikistan has two domestic airlines (
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and opened in August 2007 and plans called for construction of several other bridges ultimately connecting Tajikistan to warm-water ports to the south.
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Chormaghzak Tunnel renamed Khatlon Tunnel and Shar-Shar Tunnel renamed Ozodi Tunnel, 12/02/2014 15:49, Payrav Chorshanbiyev
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No flights connect Dushanbe with Tashkent. The next largest airports behind Dushanbe are at
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Chinese workers build a bridge on the road between Dushanbe and Khujand, 2007
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Tajikistan has no access to the sea and no navigable inland waterways.
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system totals only 680 kilometres (420 mi) of track, all of it
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In mid-2005 construction began on a bridge across the
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2001 map of Tajikistan including road and rail network
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Index

Transportation in Tajikistan

Tajikistan
transportation
Soviet era
Central Asian
Anzob Tunnel
Dushanbe

Tajik Air
Somon Air
Dushanbe International Airport
Khujand
Kulob
Rail transport in Tajikistan

Dushanbe railway station
railroad
broad gauge
Gissar
Vakhsh
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan
Russia
Bokhtar
Kulyab
Kulyab District
Railway stations in Tajikistan
Pamir Highway

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