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ABOUT UZBEKISTAN
 Geographical Data
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| Location: |
Central Asia |
| Map: |
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| Geographic coordinates: |
41 00 N, 64 00 E |
| Map references: |
Asia |
| Area: |
total: 447,400 sq km
land: 425,400 sq km
water: 22,000 sq km
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| Area - comparative: |
slightly larger than California |
| Land boundaries: |
total: 6,221 km
border countries: Afghanistan 137 km, Kazakhstan 2,203 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,099 km, Tajikistan 1,161 km, Turkmenistan 1,621 km
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| Coastline: |
0 km (doubly landlocked); note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline |
| Climate: |
mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east |
| Terrain: |
mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west |
| Elevation extremes: |
lowest point: Sariqarnish Kuli -12 m
highest point: Adelunga Toghi 4,301 m
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| Natural resources: |
natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum |
| Land use: |
arable land: 10.83%
permanent crops: 0.83%
other: 88.34% (2001)
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| Irrigated land: |
42,810 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards: |
NA |
| Geography - note: |
along with Liechtenstein, one of the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world |
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