The 1987 Asian WOmen's Handball Championship took place in a city with this population?
1987 Asian Women's Handball Championship The 1987 Asian Women's Handball Championship, the 1st Asian Championship, which was taking place from August 15 to September 1, 1987, in Amman, Jordan.
Dushanbe Dushanbe (Tajik: Душанбе, "Duşanbe" ) — is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. Dushanbe means "Monday" in the Tajik language. It was so named because it grew from a village that originally had a popular market on Mondays (as Dushanbe means Monday in Persian language). Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (Russian: Дюшамбе, "Djušambe" ), and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad (Tajik: Сталинобод, "Stalinobod" ). s of 2014 , Dushanbe had a population of 778,500.