asia the nations of the Asian continent collectively
cis,
commonwealth of independent states an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
pamir mountains,
the pamirs a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China
tajik -
the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi; spoken in Iran and Tajikistan