Tajikistan: Yurt in Pamir Mountains

This beautiful postcard is my first card from Tajikistan, Tajikistan is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated 8 million people in 2013, and an area of 143,100 km2. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. Pakistan lies to the south, separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. Traditional homelands of Tajik people included present-day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.

On this postcard you can see traditional yurt in Pamir Mountains. A traditional yurt is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. Yurts have been a distinctive feature of life in Central Asia for at least three thousand years.

Stamps:
Asian Fauna - Argali, issued on 21.08.1992.
Red Crescent, issued on 01.03.2016.
Opera and ballet theatre, issued on 13.07.2014.



Thank you Matthew!