Match 252 DB Rec# - 7,704 Dataset-WOFACT Title :Uzbekistan Text
: Uzbekistan Geography Location: Central Asia, north of
Afghanistan Map references: Commonwealth of Independent States -
Central Asian States Area: total area: 447,400 sq km land area:
425,400 sq km comparative area: slightly larger than California
Land boundaries: total 6,221 km, Afghanistan 137 km, Kazakhstan
2,203 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,099 km, Tajikistan 1,161 km, Turkmenistan
1,621 km Coastline: 0 km note: Uzbekistan borders the Aral Sea
(420 km) Maritime claims: none; landlocked International
disputes: none 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 and
Sirdaryo Rivers; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by
mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in
west Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold,
uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tun