| Official name: |
Republic of Uzbekistan
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| Capital: |
Tashkent (Toshkent)
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| Area: |
total: 447,400 sq km
water: 22,000 sq km
land: 425,400 sq km
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| Climate: |
mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east
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| Location: |
Central Asia, north of Afghanistan
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| Geographic coordinates: |
41 00 N, 64 00 E
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| Comparative Area: |
slightly larger than California
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| Land 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
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| Coastline: |
0 km (doubly landlocked); note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline
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| 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
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| Elevation extremes: |
lowest point: Sariqarnish Kuli -12 m
highest point: Adelunga Toghi 4,301 m
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