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Tajikistan is nearly all mountains, and its map is lopsided in a way that makes a round easy to read: the Pamirs fill the whole east, the people live in the valleys round the edge, and there are only five first-level units to tell apart.
The first tier of Tajikistan: two regions (viloyat), Sughd in the north and Khatlon in the south west, the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in the east, the Districts of Republican Subordination round the capital, and the city of Dushanbe, which is a unit of its own.
Gorno-Badakhshan is the giant. It covers nearly half the country, the whole of the Pamir range, and holds only a small share of the population. Sughd is the narrow northern arm that reaches into the Fergana Valley, and Khatlon fills the south west down to the Afghan border along the Panj river.
The Districts of Republican Subordination are the odd one out. They are not one block but a set of districts that answer to the capital rather than to a region, which on the map becomes a patch east of Dushanbe and a separate strip in the centre of the country. Dushanbe itself is a speck inside them, small enough to need a tap area, and zooming in is the way to reach it.
The groups are not an official classification. Tajikistan has no tier between the regions and the country, so the quiz cuts the five into the north, the Pamirs, and the centre and south, to let you drill them a piece at a time. The regions are the Tajikistan Districts grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Gorno-Badakhshan is the largest region by far, the whole east of the country. It holds the Pamir highway and some of the highest peaks in the former Soviet Union, and its capital Khorugh lies on the Panj river against the Afghan border.
Dushanbe is the capital and a first-level unit of its own, a small patch in the middle of the country. The Districts of Republican Subordination surround it on every side.
The Districts of Republican Subordination are administered from the capital rather than from a regional centre, so they are not one block. Learn the large piece east of Dushanbe first, and the smaller pieces will follow.
Five first-level units: Sughd, Khatlon, the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, the Districts of Republican Subordination and the city of Dushanbe.
Tajikistan has no administrative tier between the regions and the country, so the quiz groups them into three parts of the map by position.
The districts, which are their own quiz. Dushanbe is drawn as a single unit there too.
The tier below this one is Tajikistan Districts. For another country at this level, see Kyrgyzstan Regions.
