Coastline:
0 km
note:
Uzbekistan does border the Aral Sea (420 km)
Maritime claims:
none - landlocked
Disputes:
none
Climate:
mostly mid latitude desert; semiarid grassland in east
Terrain:
mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; 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
Land use:
NA% arable land; NA% permanent crops; NA% meadows and pastures; NA% forest
and woodland; NA% other; includes NA% irrigated
Environment:
drying up of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical
pesticides and natural salts
Note:
landlocked

:Uzbekistan People

Population:
21,626,784 (July 1992), growth rate 2.4% (1992)
Birth rate:
34 births/1,000 population (1992)
Death rate:
7 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
Net migration rate:
-2 migrants/1,000 population (1992); note - 179,000 persons left Uzbekistan
in 1990
Infant mortality rate:
65 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
Life expectancy at birth:
64 years male, 70 years female (1992)
Total fertility rate:
4.2 children born/woman (1992)
Nationality:
noun - Uzbek(s); adjective - Uzbek
Ethnic divisions:
Uzbek 71%, Russian 8%, Tajik 5%, other 16%; note - includes 70% of Crimean
Tatars since their World War II deportation
Religions:
Muslim (mostly Sunnis) 75-80%, other (includes Farsi) 20-25%
Languages:
Uzbek 85%, Russian 5%, other 10%
Literacy:
NA%
Labor force:
7,941,000; agriculture and forestry 39%, industry and construction 24%,
other 37% (1990)
Organized labor:
NA

:Uzbekistan Government

Long-form name:
Republic of Uzbekistan
Type:
republic
Capital:
Tashkent (Toshkent)
Administrative divisions:
11 oblasts (oblastey, singular - oblast') and 1 autonomous republic*
(avtomnaya respublika); Andizhan, Bukhara, Dzhizak, Fergana, Karakalpakstan*
(Nukus), Kashkadar'ya (Karshi), Khorezm (Urgench), Namangan, Samarkand,
Surkhandar'ya (Termez), Syrdar'ya (Gulistan), Tashkent; note - an
administrative division has the same name as its administrative center
(exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
Independence:
31 August 1991 from the Soviet Union; note - formerly Uzbek So