What Continent is Uzbekistan in?
Capital: Tashkent
Population: 32.9 million (2019)
Official language: Uzbek
Majority group: Uzbek (83.8%)
Minority groups: Tajik (4.8%), Kazakh (2.4%), Russian (2.3%), karakalpak (2.2%), Kyrgyz (0.8%), Turkmen (0.5%), Korean (0.5%), Crimean Tatar (0.5%), Turkish (0.4%), Ukrainian (0.2%), etc.
Political system: authoritarian presidential regime of parliamentary type
The Republic of Uzbekistan (in Uzbek: Uzbekiston Republikasi) is a Central Asian state bordered to the north by Kazakhstan, to the east by Kyrgyzstan, to the southwest by Tajikistan, to the south by Afghanistan and to the southeast by Turkmenistan.
Uzbekistan’s major neighbors are especially Kazakhstan (2,727,300 km2) which borders the country to the north, from east to west, and Turkmenistan (488,100 km2) which occupies the entire southwestern border. It is also a former Soviet republic.
The total area of Uzbekistan is 447,400 km2 (France: 543,965 km2), equivalent to Morocco (446,550 km2) or Sweden (449,964 km2).