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| Land Boudaries Total :
| 3,651 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| midlatitude continental, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid to polar in Pamir Mountains .
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| Area Total :
| 143,100 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 142,700 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 400 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly smaller than Wisconsin .
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| Coast Line :
| 0 km (landlocked) .
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| Railways Total :
| 482 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 27,767 km .
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| Waterways :
| 200 km (along Vakhsh River) (2003) .
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| Ports and Harbors :
| none .
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Kulyab [Kulob], a large airfield capable of handling all types of aircraft, was expanded by the Soviet Union to support operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The airport in Kulyab, located about 70 kilometers from the Afghan border, has played a leading role in supplying the Northern Alliance in Takhar province in Afghanistan. On 15 October 2001 a Russian relief aid convoy departed from Kulyab, reportedly carrying 210 tons of humanitarian aid to the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. The cargo had been airlifted to Kulyab by seven planes of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry. On 30 October 2001 an un-named Tajik official had stated that the "work begun on technical renovation of the [Kulyab] airfield and navigation systems is related to the upcoming use of it for receiving civil planes with humanitarian cargoes for the civilian population of northern provinces of Afghanistan, and to no other purposes". As early as 28 September 2001 it had been reported that President Emomali Rakhmonov had promised the US Ambassador to Tajikistan, Robert Flynn, that the Kulyab airfield would be available to American forces. In 1999 there were a number of claims by the Taliban that French aid for opposition leader Ahmad Shah Masood had reached Kulyab airbase aboard cargo planes.
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