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 | Republic of Uzbekistan
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| Location: |
Central Asia, north of Afghanistan |
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| Area: |
447,400 sq km
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| Climate: |
mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east
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| Terrain: |
mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Sirdaryo (Syr Darya), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
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| Population: |
24,102,473 (July 1999 est.) |
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| Religions: |
Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%
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| Languages: |
Uzbek 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1%
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| Capital: |
Tashkent (Toshkent) |
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