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Uzbekistan


Location
: central asia. north of afghanistan

Geographic Coordinates
: 41 00 n. 64 00 e

Map Reference :
asia

Area
: total: 447.400 sq km land: 425.400 sq km water: 22.000 sq km

Area Comparative: slightly larger than california

Uzbekistan More Facts

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

coastline
: 256

Maritime Claims : none (doubly landlocked)
Climate: mostly midlatitude desert. long. hot summers. mild winters; semiarid grassland in east

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

Elevation extremes : lowest point: sariqarnish kuli -12 m highest point: adelunga toghi 4.301 m

Natural Resources
:natural gas. petroleum. coal. gold. uranium. silver. copper. lead and zinc. tungsten. molybdenum

Land use : arable land: 10.83% permanent crops: 0.83% other: 88.34% (2001)

Irrigated Lands
: 42.810 sq km (1998 est.)

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