Uzbekistan

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PROFILE
  • Area: 447,400 sq. km (172,742 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 29,473,614 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 0.93% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 73.8 years (2016)
  • Languages: Uzbek (official) 74.3%, Russian 14.2%, Tajik 4.4%
  • Religions: Muslim 88% (mostly Sunni), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%
  • Formal name: Republic of Uzbekistan
  • Alternate names: O‘zbekiston Respublikasi, Oʻzbekiston, Republic of Uzbekistan, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Ŭzbekiston, Ŭzbekiston Respublikasi, Uzbekskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika
  • Government type: presidential republic; highly authoritarian
  • Leaders: chief of state: President Shavkat MIRZIYOYEV; head of government: Prime Minister Abdulla ARIPOV
  • Capital: Tashkent
  • Administrative divisions: 12 provinces, 1 autonomous republic, and 1 city
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $6,100 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: energy products, cotton, gold, mineral fertilizers, ferrous and nonferrous metals, textiles, foodstuffs, machinery, automobiles
  • Imports: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, ferrous and nonferrous metals
  • Currency: Uzbekistani som (UZS)
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