Emblem of Tajikistan

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the official designation?State Emblem of Tajikistan. It is the primary national symbol
2. What is the country?Republic of Tajikistan. A landlocked country in Central Asia
3. What does the emblem of Tajikistan look like?It shows a crown with seven stars, mountains, and a river, all inside a circle.
4. Why does the emblem have a crown?The crown shows that Tajikistan is a sovereign state and remembers its old kings.

National Emblem: A formal visual symbol representing a sovereign state, its government, and its people.
Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR): A constituent republic of the Soviet Union, possessing nominal autonomy but under central Communist Party control.
Sovereignty: Supreme authority within a territory; the independent authority of a state to govern itself.
Iconography: The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these.