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Muslims constitute 94% of the population according to a 2013 US State Department release. [54] Approximately 3% of the population are Russian Orthodox Christians. [54] There were 94,900 Jews in Uzbekistan in 1989 [9] (about 0.5% of the population according to the 1989 census), but fewer than 5,000 remained in 2007. [10]
Uzbekistan has an area of 447,400 square kilometres (172,700 sq mi). [8] It is the 56th largest country in the world by area and the 40th by population. [46] Among the CIS countries, it is the fourth largest by area and the second largest by population. [47] Uzbekistan lies between latitudes 37° and 46° N, and longitudes 56° and 74° E. It ...
Detailed map of Uzbekistan, 1995. Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia, located north of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.With an area of approximately 448,900 square kilometers, Uzbekistan stretches 1,425 km (885 mi) from west to east and 930 km (580 mi) from north to south. [1]
People living in the area of modern Uzbekistan were first converted to Islam as early as the 8th century, as Arabs conquered the area, displacing the earlier faiths of the region. [ 127 ] A 2015 study estimates some 10,000 Muslim Uzbek converted to Christianity , most of them belonging to some sort of evangelical or charismatic Protestant ...
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein.
There are four Uzbek exclaves, all of them surrounded by Kyrgyz territory in the Fergana Valley region where Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan meet. Two of them are the towns of Sokh, area of 325 km 2 (125 sq mi) with a population of 42,800 in 1993 (with some estimates as high as 70,000, of which 99% are Tajiks and the remainder Uzbeks [4]) and Shohimardon, area of 90 km 2 (35 sq mi) with ...
Uzbekistan is: a doubly landlocked country [1] Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. Central Asia; Time zone: Uzbekistan Time ; Extreme points of Uzbekistan High: Alpomish Peak 4,668 m (15,315 ft) Low: Sariqamish Kuli −12 m (−39 ft) Land boundaries: 6,221 km Kazakhstan 2,203 km Turkmenistan 1,621 km