Is Central Asia About to Get a New Country?
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Nov 28, 2025 18:00
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Most people know Central Asia as the land of the “-stans”—Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. But inside Tajikistan, hidden high in the Pamir Mountains, lies a vast autonomous region that could one day become the world’s next country.
Gorno-Badakhshan - which occupies 45% of Tajikistan’s land but is home to just 2% of its population is remote, isolated, historically semi-independent, and culturally very different from the rest of the country. Its people, the Pamiris, are not Tajik. They speak distinct Iranian languages, not Tajik. They follow Ismaili Shi’a Islam instead of Sunni Islam. And they even have their own flag, history, and separatist movement. Could we be witnessing the birth of a new country in Central Asia? What would it mean for Tajikistan, China, Afghanistan, and even Russia? And how likely is it, really?
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