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E-book Uzbekistan Country Handbook
Uzbekistan is in central Asia. It is landlocked, 447,400 square kilometers (174,330 square miles) in area, and slightly larger than California. Two-thirds of the country is desert, the rest is either mountains or semiarid grassland. Uzbekistan’s elevation ranges from sea level to 4,400 meters (14,430 feet). Seismic activity is abundant in Uzbekistan. Tashkent was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 1966 and there have been many earthquakes since.
Uzbekistan is landlocked. The two major waterways in the country are the Syr-Darya and the Amu-Darya rivers; the former feeds the large Fergana Valley. Uzbekistan has a 420-kilometer (260-mile) shoreline on the southern portion of the Aral Sea. The Aral Sea, which is fed by the Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya rivers, is shrinking rapidly due to continued over-irrigation.
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