About Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia, one of the 47 countries of Asia on GlobeQuizz. Its full official name is Republic of Uzbekistan. In Arabic, the name is written أوزبكستان, and the capital طشقند. Its geographic centre lies in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres.
The capital of Uzbekistan is Tashkent. Tashkent lies at about 41° north and 69° east. Uzbekistan has 2 official languages: Russian and Uzbek. Its currency is the Uzbekistani Som, with the symbol so'm and the international code UZS.
Uzbekistan covers about 447,400 square kilometres, which puts it 57th by area among the 195 countries on GlobeQuizz. It is landlocked, with no coastline, and has 5 neighbours: Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The largest of these neighbours by area is Kazakhstan. To practise flags, capitals and currencies, play the Asia quiz on GlobeQuizz, which mixes Uzbekistan with the other countries of the same region.