Geographical Data Uzbekistan

Geographical Data

Location:	Central Asia
Map:
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
Area - comparative:	slightly larger than California
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
Coastline:	0 km (doubly landlocked); note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline
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, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
Elevation extremes:	lowest point: Sariqarnish Kuli -12 m highest point: Adelunga Toghi 4,301 m
Natural resources:	natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum
Land use:	arable land: 10.83% permanent crops: 0.83% other: 88.34% (2001)
Irrigated land:	42,810 sq km (1998 est.)
Natural hazards:	NA
Geography - note:	along with Liechtenstein, one of the only two do

Geographical Data