Tajikistan is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. Pakistan lies to the south separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. Its territory was previously home to several ancient cultures, including the city of Sarazm of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures, including the Oxus civilization, Andronovo culture, Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism.
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