Dushanbe, a capital with beautiful view like Kathmandu

When I stepped in Dushanbe the capital of Tazikistan, I found it looks like Kathmandu valley. A valley with beautiful mountains, small snowy peaks, green trees. Therefore I am sharing this information from wiki. The flag in front of National Museum is the tallest flag in the world and recorded in Guinness World Record.

*~Some have called it Central Asia's most beautiful capital. A planned city, Dushanbe is known for its spacious treelined streets, pastel public buildings, and numerous squares and parks. Its mostly one-story buildings, kept this height as a precaution against earthquakes, create a pleasant and relaxing atmosphere. Add in its breathtaking mountain backdrop and it's easy to see why the city is so eye-catching. Nonetheless, Dushanbe is a city on the move, with the town center boasting a host of earthquake-resistant, new high-rise buildings, and a population that has grown to more than 650,000 people.

Covering roughly 124 square kilometers in Gissar Valley at the confluence of the Varzob and Kafernihon rivers in southwest Tajikistan, Dushanbe is a relatively young city. Built by the Soviets in the 1920s on the site of three former settlements, the largest of which was called Dushanbe for its Monday bazaar (Tajik dushanbe, meaning Monday), it became the capital of the Tajik autonomous oblast in 1925. Dushanbe received a major boost in the 1950s when Soviet big-state planning turned it into a cotton- and silk-producing center, and tens of thousands of people were relocated there.

Dushanbe became the capital of independent Tajikistan in 1991, and though it suffered during the Tajik civil war, at war's end the Tajik economy revived and the city experienced a renaissance. A beautification program began. Strong multi-story apartment and office buildings sprang up. New cafés, restaurants, hotels, and shopping centers as well as theaters and ethnic museums opened their doors. And Dushanbe transformed into a vibrant and growing cultural, commercial, and industrial center that is a leading source for cotton textiles, clothing, appliances, machinery, and foodstuffs, and a home to telecommunications and other service companies. A burgeoning ecotourism trade for visitors wanting to take in the surrounding natural beauty has also ignited.~*[http://www.caatlas.org/index.php?option=… ]