!!!Uzbekistan: Geography
||Location|Central Asia, north of Turkmenistan, south of Kazakhstan
||Geographic Coordinates|41 00 N, 64 00 E[{GoogleMap location='41.0,64.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''447,400 sq km\\''land: ''425,400 sq km\\''water: ''22,000 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''6,221 km\\''border countries: ''Afghanistan 137 km, Kazakhstan 2,203 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,099 km, Tajikistan 1,161 km, Turkmenistan 1,621 km
||Coastline|0 km (doubly landlocked); note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Sariqamish Kuli -12 m\\''highest point: ''Adelunga Toghi 4,301 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]:  Khazret Sultan  4643 m;  Mount Adelung  4301 m;  Mount Beshtor  4299 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Xo‘japiryox Tog‘ 4425 m; Gora Kyzylnura 3267 m; Ungartep Tog' 1956 m; Gora Karatag 1350 m; Gora Charantayak 1055 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/Asia/Uzbekistan/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
||Natural Hazards|NA
||Natural Resource|natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum
||Land Use|''arable land: ''9.61%\\''permanent crops: ''0.8%\\''other: ''89.58% (2011)
||Climate|mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east
||Irrigated Land|41,980 sq km (2005)
||Renewable Water Resources|48.87 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|shrinkage of the Aral Sea has resulted in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification and respiratory health problems; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from buried nuclear processing and agricultural chemicals, including DDT
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|Tashkent; Namangan; Samarkand; Andijon; Buxoro\\ __[[Verified]__\\[Important Cities|Geography/Asia/Uzbekistan/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|along with Liechtenstein, one of the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world