Uzbekistan

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Cities Uzbekistan  
Country information country code: UZ
continent: Asia
capital: Tashkent (Toshkent)
languages: Uzbek, Russian

EU membership: no
NATO membership: no

GSM: 900/1800
GPS: 41 00 N, 64 00 E
electricity: 220V/50Hz

currency:
Uzbekistani Som: UZS
1UZS = 0.0009 USD
1UZS = 0.0007 EUR

phone code: +998-71

Tashkent (Toshkent), Uzbekistan

Friday 29, March

From wikipedia about Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan (O‘zbekiston Respublikasi or Ўзбекистон Республикаси, Üzbekiston Respublikasi) is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. 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. Prior to 1991, it was part of the Soviet Union.

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 family 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, potassium, and natural gas. Despite the declared objective of transition to a market economy, Uzbekistan continues to maintain rigid economic controls, which often repel foreign investors. The policy of gradual, strictly controlled transition has nevertheless produced beneficial results in the form of economic recovery after 1995. Uzbekistan's domestic policies on human rights and individual freedoms are often criticised by international organizations. : Amnesty International report, 2008.
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