GeoPointe - Uzbekistan

Official Name: Republic of Uzbekistan
Location: Central Asia, north of Afghanistan.
Capital: Tashkent (Toshkent)

Area:	total: 447,400 sq km
	land: 425,400 sq km
	water: 22,000 sq km

Lowest point: Sariqarnish Kuli -12 m.
Highest point: Adelunga Toghi 4,301 m.

Entrance to Guri Amir mausoleum, Uzbekistan

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Population: 27,780,059 (July 2007 est.) Nationality: Uzbekistani(s) Ethnic groups: Uzbek 80%, Russian 5.5%, Tajik 5%, Kazakh 3%, Karakalpak 2.5%, Tatar 1.5%, other 2.5%. Religions: Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%. Languages: Uzbek 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%, other 7.1%.

Mostly midlatitude desert. Long hot summers and mild winters. Semiarid grassland in the east.

Government type: Republic. Authoritarian Presidential rule, with little power outside the Executive Branch.
Independence: 1 September 1991 (from the Soviet Union).
National holiday: Independence Day, 1 September (1991).