Central Asia
Flag of Uzbekistan
The doubly landlocked crossroads of the Silk Road.
Colours, by share of the flag
- #f0f0f0 30%
- #18a830 30%
- #0090a8 28%
- #d86078 5%
Measured from the flag artwork itself, so shares are approximate and emblems get folded into the nearest tone.
Flags people confuse it with
Uzbekistan in numbers
| Official name | Republic of Uzbekistan |
|---|---|
| Capital | Tashkent |
| Region | Central Asia, Asia |
| Population | 34,232,050 |
| Area | 447,400 km² · 77 people per km² |
| Currency | Uzbekistani soʻm (UZS) |
| Languages | Uzbek, Russian |
| Country codes | UZ · UZB · .uz |
| Coastline | Landlocked |
Things worth knowing
- Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, meaning every neighbour it touches is itself landlocked.
- Samarkand and Bukhara were among the great hubs of the Silk Road, their turquoise-tiled madrasas and mosques among the finest architecture of the medieval Islamic world.
- The Soviet diversion of two great rivers to irrigate cotton fields drained the Aral Sea so severely that ships now rust on what is bare desert.
Did you know
Samarkand was the capital of Tamerlane, the conqueror whose empire reached from the gates of Delhi to the plains of Anatolia, and his tomb still stands there beneath a fluted turquoise dome.
Neighbours
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Country data from the mledoze/countries dataset under ODbL 1.0. Flag artwork from the same dataset. All 196 flags.