Tajikistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia that borders Afghanistan to the south, Xinjiang in China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and Uzbekistan to the west and northwest. The ancient Silk Road passed through it. The Persian nation is unique in that the majority culture is non-Turkic, unlike its neighbors to the north, west and east. Only the Wakhan Corridor separates itself with Pakistan to the south respectively.