Uzbekistan
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| Basic Facts |
| Country name |
conventional long form: Republic of Uzbekistan
conventional short form: Uzbekistan local long form: Ozbekiston Respublikasi local short form: Ozbekiston former: Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Gevernment type | republic; authoritarian presidential rule, with little power outside the executive branch |
| Capital |
name: Tashkent (Toshkent)
geographic coordinates: 41 20 N, 69 18 E time difference: UTC+5 (10 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) |
| Flag description | three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and green separated by red fimbriations with a white crescent moon and 12 white stars in the upper hoist-side quadrant |
| Currency | Uzbekistani soum (UZS) |
| Internet country code | .uz |
| Ports and terminals | Termiz (Amu Darya) |
| Agriculture products | cotton, vegetables, fruits, grain; livestock |
| Industries | textiles, food processing, machine building, metallurgy, gold, petroleum, natural gas, chemicals |
| Geography |
| Location | Central Asia, north of Afghanistan |
| Coordinates | 41 00 N, 64 00 E |
| Continent | Asia |
| Area |
total: 447,400 sq km
land: 425,400 sq km water: 22,000 sq km |
| Boundaries |
total: 6,221 km
border countries: Afghanistan 137 km, Kazakhstan 2,203 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,099 km, Tajikistan 1,161 km, Turkmenistan 1,621 km |
| Coastline | 0 km (doubly landlocked); note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline |
| Climate | mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east |
| Terrain | mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west |
| Natural resources | natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum |
| Natural hazards | NA |
| People |
| Population | 27,307,134 (July 2006 est.) |
| Ethnic groups | Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5% (1996 est.) |
| Religions | Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3% |
| Languages | Uzbek 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1% |
