Republic of Uzbekistan

O'zbekiston Respublikasi

           

Flag                                                                         

Coat of arms                                                                

Capital(and largest city)                                                      Tashkent

Official languages                                                                  Uzbek

Recognized regional languages                                         Karakalpak

Language for inter-ethnic communication                               Russian

Government                                                      Presidential republic

President                                                                  Islam Karimov

Area/ Total                                                              447,400 sq. km

Population 2007 estimate                                                27,372,000

 Density                                                                    59/ per sq. km

Currency                           Uzbekistan som (O'zbekiston so'mi) (UZS)

Time zone                                                                 UZT (UTC+5)

Drives on the                                                                            right

Internet TLD                                                                              .uz

Calling code                                                                             +998

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: O?zbekiston Respublikasi), is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south. Once part of the Persian Samanid and later Timurid empires, the region was conquered in the early 16th century by Uzbek nomads, who spoke an Eastern Turkic language. Most of Uzbekistan?s population today belong to the Uzbek ethnic group and speak the Uzbek language, one of the families of Turkic languages. Uzbekistan was incorporated into the Russian Empire in the 19th century and in 1924 became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, known as the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR). It has been an independent republic since December 1991.

Uzbekistan's economy relies mainly on commodity production, including cotton, gold, uranium, and natural gas.

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