- Official name
- Republic of Uzbekistan Республика Узбекистан · Russian
1 more name
O'zbekiston Respublikasi · Uzbek - Capital
- Tashkent
- Region
- Central Asia
- Population (2018 est.)
- ≈ 33 million
- Area
- 447,400 km²
- Currency
- Uzbekistani soʻm (UZS)
- Neighbours
- Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
- Internet / phone
- .uz · +998
Where it is
Notable facts
- Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries in the world, along with Liechtenstein.
- Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva were major Silk Road cities and are all World Heritage sites.
- The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, has largely dried up because of Soviet irrigation schemes.
- The mathematician al-Khwarizmi, whose name gives us “algorithm”, came from Khwarazm in modern Uzbekistan.
World Heritage 8 sites
National dish
Oshpalov Rice, lamb, carrot and onion cooked in one kazan, the rice absorbing the fat and stock.
On the UNESCO intangible heritage list as a shared Uzbek and Tajik tradition.