Uzbekistan

• Geography

Geography

Uzbekistan is located in the south-west region of the Asian continent – better known as the Middle East. The Geographical coordinates are 41 00 N, 64 00 E. It has the total are of447,400 sq km including land area of 425,400 sq km and water area of22,000 sq km .Border countries are Afghanistan 137 km, Kazakhstan 2,203 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,099 km, Tajikistan 1,161 km, Turkmenistan 1,621 km .

It is so positioned that portions of the country are to be found both in the northern and eastern hemispheres. The immediate neighbors of the Uzbekistan are Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.

The country of Uzbekistan is primarily desert-land. Being landlocked makes sustenance all the more difficult. There are mountainous and hilly regions too. There are lowlands in the west of Uzbekistan. Rivers in Uzbekistan are not perennial ones, the major ones being Amu Darya and Syr Darya. The only vast water body, the Aral Sea, is fast disappearing too. The only arable land in Uzbekistan is positioned between the northeast and southeast mountains.

Capital  Tashkent

Language  Uzbek, Russian and Tajik.

Currency     Uzbekistani sum.

Climate

The climate is mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east.Uzbekistan's climate is classified as continental, with hot summers and cool winters. Summer temperatures often surpass 40°C; winter temperatures average about -23°C, but may fall as low as -40°C. Most of the country also is quite arid, with average annual rainfall amounting to between 100 and 200 millimeters and occurring mostly in winter and spring. Between July and September, little precipitation falls, essentially stopping the growth of vegetation during that period.