State symbols
The emblem, flag, anthem and national currency of the Republic of Tajikistan — symbols of independence and national unity.
State Emblem of the Republic of Tajikistan
The State Emblem of the Republic of Tajikistan shows a stylised crown with a semicircle of seven stars above it, set against the rays of the sun rising from behind snow-capped mountains. It is framed by a wreath of wheat ears on the right and branches of flowering cotton on the left. The wreath is bound at the top with a tricolour ribbon, and an open book rests on a stand at the bottom.
The emblem is in colour: the crown, sun, mountains, wheat ears, book and stand are gold; the cotton stems and leaves are green; the ribbon stripes are red, white and green; the book cover is red.
State Flag of the Republic of Tajikistan
The State Flag is a rectangular cloth with three horizontal stripes: red at the top, equal in width to the green stripe at the bottom, and a white stripe in the middle that is one and a half times as wide as each coloured stripe. A gold crown with an arc of seven stars above it is placed on the white stripe.
Detailed description
The crown and stars are placed within a rectangle whose vertical side is 0.8 and horizontal side 1.0 of the width of the white stripe. The five-pointed stars are inscribed in circles 0.15 in diameter and arranged along a semicircle with a radius of 0.5 of the width of the white stripe.
The crown, 0.55 of the white stripe’s width in height, rests on a base shaped as an arc with a radius of 1.2 of the white stripe’s width. The four arched elements forming the top of the crown meet in the centre at a segment of a circle 0.2 of the white stripe’s width in diameter.
National Anthem of the Republic of Tajikistan
The anthem is sung in Tajik; its official text is below.
Диёри арҷманди мо,
Ба бахти мо сари азизи ту баланд бод,
Саодати ту, давлати ту бегазанд бод.
Зи дурии замонаҳо расидаем,
Ба зери парчами ту саф кашидаем,
кашидаем.
Зинда бош эй Ватан,
Тоҷикистони озоди ман!
Барои нангу номи мо
Ту аз умеди рафтагони мо нишонаӣ,
Ту баҳри ворисон ҷаҳони ҷовидонаӣ,
Хазон намерасад ба навбаҳори ту,
Ки мазраи вафо бувад канори ту,
канори ту.
Зинда бош эй Ватан,
Тоҷикистони озоди ман!
Ту модари ягонаӣ,
Бақои ту бувад бақои хонадони мо,
Мароми ту бувад мароми ҷисму ҷони мо,
Зи ту саодати абад насиби мост,
Ту ҳастиву ҳама ҷаҳон ҳабиби мост,
ҳабиби мост.
Зинда бош эй Ватан,
Тоҷикистони озоди ман!
National currency: the somoni
Tajikistan’s currency is named the somoni in honour of Ismoil Somoni (849–907), founder of the first centralised state of the Tajiks. One somoni equals 100 diram. The banknotes feature great figures of the Tajik people and historical and architectural monuments of Tajikistan.
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Tajikistan’s national currency, the Tajik rouble, is introduced.
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The new national currency, the somoni: banknotes of 1–100 somoni and 1–50 diram.
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Coins of 1, 3 and 5 somoni and 5, 10, 20, 25 and 50 diram enter circulation.
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Tajikistan issues its first commemorative coins.