Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia, located north of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. With an area of approximately 447,000 square kilometers, Uzbekistan stretches 1,425 km (885 mi) from west to east and 930 km (580 mi) from north to south.[1] It borders Turkmenistan to the southwest, Kazakhstan to the north and Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to the south and east.[1] Uzbekistan also has four small exclaves in Turkmenistan.
Uzbekistan is the only Central Asian state to border all of the other four.[1] Uzbekistan also shares a short border with Afghanistan to the south.[1] As the Caspian Sea is an inland sea with no direct link to the oceans, Uzbekistan is one of only two "doubly landlocked" countries—countries completely surrounded by other landlocked countries. The other is Liechtenstein.
- ^ a b c d Olcott, Martha Brill (1997). "Kazakstan: Physical Environment". In Curtis, Glenn E. (ed.). Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: country studies (1st ed.). Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. pp. 401–406. ISBN 0-8444-0938-3. OCLC 36364151.
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