Region: Asia
Capital: Tashkent
Population: 28,128,600
Area: 425,400 km²
Currency: Uzbekistan Sum (UZS)
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is the only doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of only two such countries worldwide. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south. Before 1991, it was part of the Soviet Union. Wikipedia