Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan - Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor

"The Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor is a key section of the Silk Roads in Central Asia that connects other corridors from all directions. Located in rugged mountains, fertile river valleys, and uninhabitable desert, the 866-kilometre corridor runs from east to west along the Zarafshan River and further southwest following the ancient caravan roads crossing the Karakum Desert to the Merv Oasis. Channelling much of the east-west exchange along the Silk Roads from the 2nd century BCE to the 16th century CE, a large quantity of goods was traded along the corridor. People travelled, settled, conquered, or were defeated here, making it a melting pot of ethnicities, cultures, religions, sciences, and technologies."

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Site

Vobkent Minaret in Bukhara region, Uzbekistan is a transnational UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor. Thanks to Yuliya of Belarus for mailing from Uzbekistan.

Tajikistan - Cultural Heritage Sites of Ancient Khuttal (2025)

 Tajikistan - Cultural Heritage Sites of Ancient Khuttal is a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2025. 

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Tajikistan - Tugay forests of the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve

This property is located between the Vakhsh and Panj rivers in southwestern Tajikistan. The Reserve includes extensive riparian tugay ecosystems, the sandy Kashka-Kum desert, the Buritau peak, as well as the Hodja-Kaziyon mountains. The property is composed of a series of floodplain terraces covered by alluvial soils, comprising tugay riverine forests with very specific biodiversity in the valley. The tugay forests in the reserve represent the largest and most intact tugay forest of this type in Central Asia, and this is the only place in the world where the Asiatic poplar tugay ecosystem has been preserved in its original state over an area of this size.