UZBEKISTAN

Uzbekistan



Uzbekistan

Background

Prior to the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Republic of Uzbekistan was rated as the 3rd biggest Soviet commonwealth in terms of universe and the 4th biggest in terms of area. Since Uzbekistan has a universe that's more than forty percent of the aggregated universe of the 5 Central Asian countries of the previous USSR, and since it has ample instinctive possessions, several experts conceive that it is expected to come forth as the dominant modern country in the region. However, its chronicle also has brought about to severe issues: profoundly settled cultural stresses; severe economical, political, and environmental disputes; and an unsettled protection and international strategy surroundings. Equivalent to its neighbors in the region, the country came forth all of a sudden from more than 60 years inside an extremely integrated, and in several manners caring, political and economy. In the years abiding by that growth, endurance has turned on the growth of fresh foreign associations as well as on resolutions to the quandaries of the Soviet period. By 1996, the country demonstrated marks of advancement in both ways.

Geography

Location

Geographically, Uzbekistan is located in the region of Central Asia. Turkmenistan is situated at its north while Kazakhstan lies at the south.

Area

The area of Uzbekistan is calculated as approximately 447,400 square kilometer. Approximately, 22,000 square kilometer is consisted of water and the rest is land. Uzbekistan is ranked fifty-seven in the world in terms of area.

Climate

The climate of the country is mostly comprises of extended, blistering summertime. Modest wintertime and semiarid grassland in east.

Terrain

The landscape of Uzbekistan is largely flat-to-rolling gritty desert with sand dunes, spacious; flatbed excessively watered river basins by the path of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon. The valley of Fergana in eastern side is besieged by hilly Republic of Tajikistan and Kyrgyz Republic.

Natural Resources

Some of the key natural resources of Uzbekistan include petroleum products, uranium, amber, char, zinc, copper, wolfram and molybdenum.

Present Problems of the Environment

Shrinking of the Lake Aral has led to rising absorptions of chemical insect repellents and instinctive salinities, such contents are then been adrift from the progressively disclosed bottom of lake and bestow to desertification and respiratory wellness issues, irrigation contamination from industrial consumes and the accented consumption of plant foods and insect repellents is the reason of several individual wellness troubles; increasing volume of salts in dirt, dirt pollution from hidden atomic treating and farming chemicals, ...