Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: O‘zbekiston Respublikasi or Ўзбекистон Республикаси), is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south.In 1991 Uzbekistan emerged as a sovereign country after more than a century of Russian rule – first as part of the Russian empire and then as a component of the Soviet Union.
Positioned on the ancient Great Silk Road between Europe and Asia, majestic cities such as Bukhara and Samarkand, famed for their architectural opulence, once flourished as trade and cultural centres.Uzbekistan has well preserved relics from the time when Central Asia was a center of empire, education, and trade. Uzbekistan cities including Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Shakhrisabz and Tashkent live on in the imagination of the West as symbols of oriental beauty and mystery.
Location: Central Asia, north of Afghanistan.
Capital: Tashkent (Toshkent)
Official language: Uzbek
Government type: Republic
President: Islom Karimov
Prime Minister: Shavkat Mirziyayev
National Holiday: Independence Day, 1 September (1991)
Area
total: 447 400 km²
land: 425 400 km²
water: 22 000 km²
Climate: mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east.
Population: 27 780 059 (July 2007)
Currency: Uzbekistani Soum (UZS)
IntInternet domain: .uz
International dialing code: +998
Sources: www.wikipedia.org
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