Uzbekistan

• 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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