Dushanbe Facts for Kids

View from a hill

Coat of arms

Dushanbe (Tajik: Душанбе, Persian: دوشنبه) is the capital city of Tajikistan. About 562,000 people live in Dushanbe as of 2000. The name is borrowed from the Persian word for "Monday" (du "two" + shamba or shanbe "day", lit. "day two") and refers to the fact that it was a popular "Monday" market place.

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Bazaar in Dushanbe, 2007
1911 color photograph of the last Emir of Bukhara, Alim Khan
Dushanbe World War 2 monument
February 1990 Riots in Dushanbe
Rustam Emomali
Dushanbe in the Gissar Valley
Seismic map of Dushanbe
Districts of Dushanbe before the 2020 expansion Dark Green: Shah Mansur Purple: Ismail Samani Light Green: Avicenna Yellow: Ferdowsi
Madrassa just west of Dushanbe
Dushanbe Railway Station
Trolleybuses in Dushanbe
Combination of neoclassical decoration and a minimalist structure from the late 1950s
Mausoleum of Sadriddin Ayni
Istiqlol Medical Complex
Khoja Obi Garm sanatorium
Bank in Dushanbe
Shashmaqam in the Dushanbe Concert Hall
Mirsaid Mirshakar
Movie theater
Pamir Stadium
The front page of the first issue of Bukhara Sharif newspaper
Interior of the Boulder Dushanbe teahouse
2008 Shanghai Coordination Council meeting.
Bishkent culture
Vakhsh culture
Kara-Khanid Khanate
Greco-Bactria
National Museum of Tajikistan
Puppet Theater
National Museum of Antiquities
Rudaki Avenue
Dushanbe Flagpole
Mosque in Dushanbe
Cathedral in Dushanbe
Synagogue in Dushanbe
View of Dushanbe International Airport
Terminal of Dushanbe International Airport
Air Astana plane at Dushanbe International Airport
Rudaki Park with the Palace of the Nation in the background.
Folk architecture area of the botanical gardens
Dushanbe botanical gardens
A parade in Victory Park
World War 2 memorial in Victory Park
Statue of Rudaki
Statue of Omar Khayyam
Statue of Lenin
Statue of Avicenna

Dushanbe facts for kids

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