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Uzbekistan
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Oʻzbekiston - Ўзбекистон
Узбекистан |
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Oʻzbekiston - Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi (Cyrillic: Ўзбекистон Республикаси)
Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi Markaziy Osiyoda joylashgan davlat. Oʻzbekistonning poytaxti — Toshkent shahri. Davlat tili — oʻzbek tili. Maydoni — 447,4 ming km2. Aholi soni (2002) - 25,563,441. Pul birligi — soʻm. Oʻzbekiston 12 ta viloyat va Qoraqalpogʻiston Avtonom Jumhuriyatidan iborat.
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Узбекистан - Республика Узбекистан[1]
Республика Узбекистан, официальное название Респу́блика Узбекиста́н (узбекск. O‘zbekiston Respublikasi) — не имеющее выхода к морю государство в центральной части Средней Азии. Граничит на севере и западе с Казахстаном, на юге с Туркменистаном и Афганистаном, на востоке с Таджикистаном и Киргизией.
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Uzbekistan - Republic of Uzbekistan
The Republic of Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia, formerly 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. This gives Uzbekistan a status shared only with Europe's Liechtenstein in that it is doubly landlocked, that is, it is surrounded entirely by other landlocked states.
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| Short name |
Uzbekistan |
| Official name |
Republic of Uzbekistan |
| Status |
Independent country since 1991 |
| Location |
Central Asia |
| Capital |
Toshkent (Tashkent)
Ташкент[2] |
| Population |
26,593,000 inhabitants |
| Area |
447,6400 km² |
| Major languages |
Uzbek, Russian, Karakalpak |
| Major religions |
Islam |
| More information |
Uzbekistan, Geography of Uzbekistan, History of Uzbekistan and Politics of Uzbekistan |
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Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan (Category). |
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General maps
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Map of Uzbekistan |
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Map of Uzbekistan |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Uzbekistan, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Uzbekistan.
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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The Persian Achaemenid Empire |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE |
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Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian) |
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Hellenistic world in 200 BCE |
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Indo-Sassanide Empire |
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The Persian Sassanian Empire (226-650) in 602 to 629, Strokes: Under Sassanid military control. |
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Sassanide Empire |
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Sassanide Empire |
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Expansion of the Caliphate: I: Muhammad; II: Abu Bakr; III: Omar and IV: Othman |
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Caliphate around 750 |
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Map of the Western (purple) and Eastern (blue) Göktürk Khaganates at their height, ca. 600 CE. Lighter areas show direct rule; darker areas show spheres of influence. |
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The region around 1000 |
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Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)
Mongol Empire
By 1294 the empire had split into:
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Russian Empire |
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History of the Russian Empire (in German) |
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Central Asia in 1900 |
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Russia in 1912 |
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Russia becomes the Soviet Union in 1922. Bukhara, Khiva (or Choresm) and Turkestan became a separate member republic as Uzbekistan |
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Evolution of the Soviet Union |
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The republics of the USSR |
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Uzbekistan in the USSR |
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Map of the 1974 geographic location of various ethnic groups within the Soviet Union |
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Soviet Union administrative divisions, 1989 |
Satellite maps
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Satellite map |
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Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
- ↑ Romanization of Russian according to the BGN/PCGN standard: Uzbekistan - Respublika Uzbekistan. Another used romanization is the ISO 9 standard.
- ↑ Romanization of Russian according to the BGN/PCGN standard: Tashkent. Another used romanization is the ISO 9 standard.
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