Dushanbe

Tajikistan

Dushanbe is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. As of February 2023, Dushanbe had a population of 1,228,400, with this population being largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad, after Joseph Stalin. Dushanbe is located in the Hisar Valley, bounded by the Hisar Range in the north and east and the Babatag, Aktau, Rangontau and Karatau mountains in the south, and has an elevation of 750–930 m.

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Country: Tajikistan
Population: 1,086,244
Latitude: 38.56° N
Longitude: 68.77° E

Which way is Dushanbe from…

From Paris, Dushanbe lies at 76° to the east, 5,285 km as the crow flies.

Paris	76° east	5,285 km
London	77° east	5,389 km
New York	28° north-east	10,425 km
Madrid	67° north-east	6,039 km
Rome	75° east	4,706 km
Montreal	29° north-east	9,939 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	12° north	6,754 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital, lies on the same latitude as Lisbon and Washington. From London, a flat map would put it at 105°, south of east; the compass says 77°, north of east, for 5,389 km. From New York the gap widens: 28°, north-east, over Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia, instead of the map’s 91°. Tashkent is 309 km to the north, Kabul 451 km to the south.