חיפוש ברשת מילון חיפוש בפורום
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חיפוש ברשת מילון חיפוש בפורום |
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| CIA World Factbook 2005 | הורד מילון בבילון 9 למחשב שלך |
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Location: | Central Asia, north of Afghanistan |
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Geographic coordinates: |
41 00 N, 64 00 E |
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Map references: |
Asia |
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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 |
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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 |
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Maritime claims: |
none (doubly landlocked) |
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Climate: |
mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.) |
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Natural hazards: |
NA |
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Environment - current issues: |
shrinkage of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from buried nuclear processing and agricultural chemicals, including DDT |
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Environment - international agreements: |
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
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Geography - note: |
along with Liechtenstein, one of the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world |
More about Uzbekistan:
| CIA World Factbook 2005 | הורד מילון בבילון 9 למחשב שלך |
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Location: | Central Asia, north of Afghanistan |
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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 |
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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 |
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Maritime claims: |
none (doubly landlocked) |
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Climate: |
mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.) |
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Natural hazards: |
NA |
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Environment - current issues: |
shrinkage of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from buried nuclear processing and agricultural chemicals, including DDT |
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Environment - international agreements: |
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
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Geography - note: |
along with Liechtenstein, one of the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world |
More about Uzbekistan: