1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Tajikistan
Compare this sourced profile of Dushanbe, Tajikistan before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Dushanbe—679,400, Asia/Dushanbe, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Dushanbe is GeoNames ID 1221874. Its recorded administrative path is Dushanbe → Tajikistan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Dushanbe occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2016-10-19; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Dushanbe ranks 816 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Tajikistan entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 457. Its 679,400 population value is 1.00 times the 679,400 median for the country cohort and 0.67 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Dushanbe is rank 1 among the 1 selected Tajikistan entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Dushanbe's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Dushanbe's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Samarkand at 199.991 km with 595,200 recorded people; Mazār-e Sharīf at 250.675 km with 523,300 recorded people; Tashkent at 305.722 km with 1,978,028 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 105.731 km. Compared with Samarkand, Dushanbe's recorded population is 1.14 times as large. Against Dushanbe, Samarkand follows Samarqand Region → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than Tajikistan, uses Asia/Samarkand instead of Asia/Dushanbe, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dushanbe's. Against Dushanbe, Mazār-e Sharīf follows Mazar-e Sharif → Balkh → Afghanistan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Afghanistan cohort rather than Tajikistan, uses Asia/Kabul instead of Asia/Dushanbe, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Dushanbe's. Against Dushanbe, Tashkent follows Tashkent → Uzbekistan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Uzbekistan cohort rather than Tajikistan, uses Asia/Tashkent instead of Asia/Dushanbe, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Dushanbe's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 993 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Dushanbe's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1221874, the coordinate pair 38.5358 / 68.7791, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 1216265 at 199.991 km bind Dushanbe to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Dushanbe's reference point is 38.5358° north and 68.7791° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Dushanbe is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Dushanbe's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Dushanbe's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Dushanbe's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Dushanbe, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Dushanbe's closest other entries in this atlas are Samarkand (199.991 km), Mazār-e Sharīf (250.675 km), Tashkent (305.722 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2016-10-19; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.