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___MASK43___ (; " ___MASK43___ "), officially the Kyrgyz Republic (" Krgz Respublikas "; " Kyrgyzskaya Respublika "), formerly known as Kirghizia , is a country in Central Asia . Landlocked and mountainous , ___MASK43___ is bordered by ___MASK56___ to the north , Uzbekistan to the west and southwest , ___MASK86___ to the southwest and China to the east . Its capital and largest city is Bishkek . Mulla Abdulkarim Sipandi Samarqandi ( 1829 - 1909 ) was a Tajik bilingual poet . He lived in Samarkand , in current - day ___MASK44___ . His work consists of ghazal , qit ' a , mukhammas , and ruba ' i , which were written in the Tajik language . Samarkandi also wrote Hajvi kali Ibrahim . Urdu ( or Modern Standard Urdu ) is a standardised register of the Hindustani language . It is the and " lingua franca " of ___MASK73___ , and an official language of six states of India . It is also one of the 22 official languages recognized in the Constitution of India . Hyderabad , Rampur , Badayun , Bhopal and Lucknow are noted Urdu - speaking cities of India . ___MASK86___ (, or ), officially the Republic of ___MASK86___ (" Çumhuriji Toçikiston "), is a mountainous , landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated 8 million people in 2013 , and an area of . 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 ___MASK86___ , Afghanistan and Uzbekistan . ___MASK56___ ( " Qazaqstan ", " ___MASK56___ "), officially the Republic of ___MASK56___ (" Qazaqstan Respwblïkas " " Respublika ___MASK56___ "), is a transcontinental country in northern Central Asia and Eastern Europe . ___MASK56___ is the world ' s largest landlocked country , and the ninth largest in the world , with an area of . ___MASK56___ is the dominant nation of Central Asia economically , generating 60 % of the region ' s GDP , primarily through its oil / gas industry . It also has vast mineral resources . Sadriddin Ayni ( Tajik :   , Persian :   , also Sadriddin Aini ; 27 April 1878 - 15 July 1954 ) was a Tajik intellectual who wrote poetry , fiction , journalism , history and lexicography . He is regarded as ___MASK86___ ' s national poet and one of the most important writers in the country ' s history . ___MASK44___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK44___ , is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia . It is a unitary , constitutional , presidential republic , comprising twelve provinces , one autonomous republic and a capital city . ___MASK44___ is bordered by five landlocked countries : ___MASK56___ to the north ; ___MASK86___ to the southeast ; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast ; Afghanistan to the south ; and Turkmenistan to the southwest . Tajik or Tajiki ( Tajik :     , , also called Tajiki Persian ( Tajik :     )) is the variety of Persian spoken in ___MASK86___ and Uzbekistan . It is closely related to Dari Persian . Since the beginning of the twentieth century , Tajik has been considered by a number of writers and researchers to be a variety of Persian ( Halimov 1974 : 30  31 , Oafforov 1979 : 33 ). The popularity of this conception of Tajik as a variety of Persian was such that , during the period in which Tajik intellectuals were trying to establish Tajik as a language separate from Persian , Sadriddin Ayni , who was a prominent intellectual and educator , had to make a statement that Tajik was not a bastardized dialect of Persian . The issue of whether Tajik and Persian are to be considered two dialects of a single language or two discrete languages has political sides to it ( see Perry 1996 ). Today Tajik is recognized as a West - Iranian language . ___MASK10___ (, also , ; ' ), also known as Persia , officially the Islamic Republic of ___MASK10___ (' ), is a sovereign state in Western Asia . It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia , the " de facto " Nagorno - Karabakh Republic , and ___MASK90___ ; to the north by the Caspian Sea ; to the northeast by Turkmenistan ; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan ; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of ___MASK49___ ; and to the west by Turkey and ___MASK46___ . Comprising a land area of , it is the second - largest country in the Middle East and the 18th - largest in the world . With 82 . 8 million inhabitants , ___MASK10___ is the world ' s 17th - most - populous country . It is the only country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline . The country ' s central location in Eurasia and Western Asia , and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz , make it of great geostrategic importance . Tehran is the country ' s capital and largest city , as well as its leading economic center . A province is almost always an administrative division , within a country or state . The term derives from the ancient Roman " provincia ", which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the ___MASK2___ ' s territorial possessions outside ___MASK50___ . The term province has since been adopted by many countries , and in those with no actual provinces , it has come to mean " outside the capital city ". While some provinces were produced artificially by colonial powers , others were formed around local groups with their own ethnic identities . Many have their own powers independent of federal authority , especially in ___MASK59___ . In other countries , like ___MASK41___ , provinces are the creation of central government , with very little autonomy . The qada ( also spelled " qadah "; is originally an Arabic word Arabic :  , plural " qa ' id ",  ; that was passed to some other languages such as Persian :  or  , " chakameh ", in Turkish : " kaside ") is an ancient Arabic word and form of writing poetry , often translated as ode , passed to other cultures after the ___MASK57___ Muslim expansion . The word " qasidah " is still being used in its original birthplace , Arabia , and in all Arabic speaking countries . A poet is a person who writes poetry . Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others . A poet may simply be a ___MASK82___ of poetry , or may perform their art to an audience . An autonomous republic is a type of administrative division similar to a province or state . A significant number of autonomous republics can be found within the successor states of the ___MASK61___ , but the majority are located within ___MASK77___ . Many of these republics were established during the Soviet period as Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics , or ASSRs . The ghazal ( Arabic / Persian / Urdu :  ) is a poetic form with rhyming couplets and a refrain , each line sharing the same meter . A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain . The form is ancient , originating in Arabic poetry in Arabia long before the birth of Islam . It is derived from the Arabian panegyric " qasida ". The structural requirements of the ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan sonnet . In style and content , it is a genre that has proved capable of an extraordinary variety of expression around its central themes of love and separation . Samarkand ( from Sogdian : " Stone Fort " or " Rock Town " ; Cyrillic /), alternatively Samarqand or Samarcand , is a city in modern - day ___MASK44___ and is one of the oldest inhabited cities in Central Asia . There is evidence of human activity in the area of the city from the late Paleolithic era , though there is no direct evidence of when exactly Samarkand proper was founded ; some theories are that it was founded between the 8th and 7th centuries BC . Prospering from its location on the Silk Road between ___MASK41___ and the Mediterranean , at times Samarkand was one of the greatest cities of Central Asia . The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from ___MASK41___ to the Mediterranean Sea . ___MASK26___ ( or ); formerly known as Turkmenia is a country in Central Asia , bordered by ___MASK56___ to the northwest , Uzbekistan to the north and east , Afghanistan to the southeast , Iran to the south and southwest , and the Caspian Sea to the west . The Kazakhs ( also spelled Kazaks , Qazaqs , , ; the English name is transliterated from Russian ) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern Europe Ural mountains and northern parts of Central Asia ( largely ___MASK56___ , but also found in parts of Uzbekistan , ___MASK41___ , Russia and Mongolia ), the region also known as Eurasian sub - continent . Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465 , when several tribes under the rule of the sultans Zhanibek and Kerey departed from the Khanate of Abu ' l - Khayr Khan . Arabic (' or ' ) is a Central Semitic language that was first spoken in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the " lingua franca " of the ___MASK57___ world . Arabic also is a liturgical language of 1 . 7 billion Muslims . It is one of six official languages of the United Nations . It is named after the Arabs , a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti - ___MASK81___ mountains in the west , and from northwestern Arabia to the Sinai in the south . Central Asia or Middle Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to ___MASK41___ in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north . It is also colloquially referred to as " the ' stans " ( as the six countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent . ___MASK18___ ( Pashto / Dari : , " Afnistn "), officially the Islamic ___MASK65___ , is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia . It has a population of approximately 32 million , making it the 42nd most populous country in the world . It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and east ; Iran in the west ; Turkmenistan , ___MASK44___ , and ___MASK86___ in the north ; and China in the far northeast . Its territory covers , making it the 41st largest country in the world . Sogdia ( New Persian :      , " soghd ") or Sogdiana was the ancient Indo - European civilization of an Iranian people that at different times included territory located in present - day ___MASK86___ and Uzbekistan such as : Samarkand , Bukhara , Khujand , Panjikent and Shahrisabz . Sogdiana was also a province of the Achaemenid Empire , eighteenth in the list on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great ( i . 16 ). In the Avesta , Sogdiana is listed as the second best land that the supreme deity Ahura Mazda had created . It comes second , after Airyanem Vaejah , " homeland of the Aryans ", in the Zoroastrian book of Vendidad , indicating the importance of this region from ancient times . Sogdiana was conquered by the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great in 328 BC and later formed part of the Greco - Bactrian Kingdom and Sasanian Empire .