Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (officially Republic of Uzbekistan) is a country in Central Asia, with its capital at Tashkent, and is home to roughly 36.4M people.
Its official languages are Russian, Uzbek; the currency in circulation is Uzbekistani soʻm (so'm); people from here are called Uzbekistani.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries in the world.
- »Samarkand and Bukhara were among the great cities of the Silk Road.
> BORDERS_
Uzbekistan touches five neighbours: Afghanistan to the south, Kazakhstan to the northeast, Kyrgyzstan to the east, Tajikistan to the southeast and Turkmenistan to the southwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Tashkent was a major Silk Road city, then largely rebuilt after a 1966 earthquake. Its metro stations are among the most ornate in the world.
> SCALE_
447,835 km² (172,910 sq mi), 56th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Sweden.
Population 36,361,859, 43rd of 198 on file. That averages 81 per km² (210 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The crescent marks rebirth as an independent state; the twelve stars stand for the months of the solar calendar used in the region. Blue recalls Timur's banners, white peace, green nature.