Uzbekistan (uzb)

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan ranks 7,224th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Winchester, Tennessee, and Hohenfels, Konstanz. Memorable people born in Uzbekistan include Lomon, Leilia Adzhametova, and Adkhamjon Ergashev. Memorable people who died in Uzbekistan include Al-Tirmidhi. Uzbekistan has been the birth place of many athletes, and actors and the death place of many religious figures. Uzbekistan is located in Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein. Uzbekistan is part of the Turkic world, as well as a member of the Organization of Turkic States. Uzbek, spoken by the Uzbek people, is the official language and spoken by the majority of its inhabitants, while Russian and Tajik are significant minority languages. Islam is the predominant religion, and most Uzbeks are Sunni Muslims. Read more on Wikipedia