Uzbekistan
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Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia. Its capital and largest city is Tashkent.
There are about 26,593,000 people living in Uzbekistan. The neighboring countries are Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. It is a doubly landlocked country, of which there are only two in the world.
Most people in Uzbekistan speak a language called Uzbek, a Turkic language similar to Uyghur and Turkish. In the Uzbek language, Uzbekistan is called "O‘zbekiston" and it means "the land of the true nobles".
Uzbekistan has a long history. Humans first lived in Uzbekistan from before the 2nd millenium BC.[1]
The president today is Islam Karimov.
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- ↑ Embassy of Uzbekistan - UZBEKISTAN: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
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