"Uzbekistan (UK: /ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑːn, ʌz-, -ˈstæn/, US: /ʊzˈbɛkɪstæn, -stɑːn/;[11][12] Uzbek: O´zbekiston, Ўзбекистон pronounced [ozbekiˈstɒn]), officially Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: O´zbekiston Respublikasi), is a country in Central Asia. It ...
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is bordered by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Tajikistan to the southeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest. Along with Liechtenstein, it is one of the world´s only two doubly landlocked countries.
As a sovereign state, Uzbekistan is a secular, unitary constitutional republic. It comprises 12 provinces and one autonomous republic. The capital and largest city of Uzbekistan is Tashkent." - (en.wikipedia.org 01.02.2020)