The Dushanbe Flagpole (; ) is a free–standing
flagpole
A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The fla ...
located in front of the
Palace of Nations in
Dushanbe
Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...
,
Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...
. At , it was the tallest flagpole in the world from its completion in 2011 until the 2014 erection of the
Jeddah Flagpole. It is now the
fifth tallest flagpole in the world. It flies a
flag of Tajikistan weighing .
Construction
The flagpole consists of 12-metre sections of steel tube fitted together by crane.
The design phase for the flagpole began in July 2009. Fabrication of the pole's sections was completed in
Dubai
Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...
in October 2010. The sections were then shipped to Dushanbe, where construction of the flagpole began on November 24, 2010, Tajikistan's National Flag Day. The final assembly and erection took place during April and May 2011, with the first test flight of the
flag of Tajikistan taking place on May 24, 2011.
The flagpole cost $3.5 million and was part of $210 million worth of projects celebrating the 20th anniversary of
Tajik independence.
References
External links
Trident Support's page on the flagpole
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Buildings and structures in Dushanbe
Flagpoles
Buildings and structures completed in 2011
Squares in Tajikistan
2011 establishments in Tajikistan