Glossary:
montainous - hegyes (hegyekkel borított)
independence - függetlenség
to devastate - pusztítani
resource - nyersanyag
aid - segély
substantially - jelentősen
Tajikistan is a montainous landlocked country in Central Asia.
Tajikistan has a population of 7.3 million; the official language is tajik.
Mountains cover over 90% of the country's territory.
The country was part of the Samanid Empire and the USSR. After independence, a civil war devastated for 5 years. Due to the civil war, the country was the poorest country in Middle Asia in the 1990s.
Cotton & aluminium are the main exported products/resources.
In 2001, the Red Cross announced that a famine was striking Tajikistan, and called for international aid. Since then, the economy has grown substantially.
