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This is a list of World Heritage Sites in Uzbekistan with properties of cultural and natural heritage in Uzbekistan as inscribed in UNESCO's World Heritage List or as on the country's tentative list. As of 2024, seven sites in Uzbekistan are included: five cultural sites and 2 natural sites. [ 3 ]
Uzbekistan, [a] officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, [b] 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.
Uzbekistan is the seventh most water stressed country in the world. Despite Uzbekistan's rich and varied natural environment, decades of environmental neglect in the Soviet Union have combined with skewed economic policies in the Soviet south to make Uzbekistan one of the gravest of the CIS's many environmental crises. [1]
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The architecture of Uzbekistan combines ancient traditional design and innovative features adapted to the climate. Centers of Uzbek architecture are Samarkand , Bukhara , Khiva , Shakhrisabz , Termez , and Kokand .
In 2005 Tashkent House of Photography was included in the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan. [ 8 ] In 2009, photographer from Uzbekistan Umida Akhmedova , whose images have been published in the photography sections of the online editions of The New York Times , [ 9 ] Wall Street Journal [ 10 ] and The Globe and Mail , [ 11 ] was officially accused ...
The Uzbekistan State Museum of Nature (Uzbek: Tabiat muzeyi) is the oldest museum operating in Uzbekistan. [citation needed] The museum's main purpose is to show the natural beauty of Uzbekistan and to help protect its environment. The museum features chronologically-ordered exhibits and seeks to educate visitors about Uzbekistan's geography ...
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...