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Uzbekistan
Country
Formal Name: Republic of Uzbekistan.
Short Form: Uzbekistan.
Term for Citizens: Uzbekistani(s).
Capital: Tashkent.
Date of Independence: August 31, 1991.
Geography
Size: Approximately 447,000 square kilometers.
Topography: About 80 percent flat, desert; mountain
ranges dominate far southeast and far northeast and traverse middle
of eastern provinces, east to west. Fergana Valley in northeast
most fertile region. Few lakes and rivers; shrinking Aral Sea,
shared with Kazakstan, in northwest. Most of country seismically
active.
Climate: Continental; hot summers, cool winters.
Annual rainfall very sparse in most regions, irrigation needed
for crops.
Data as of March 1996
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