Uzbekistan
Area: 447,400 km² (World Rank 55)
Inhabitants: 28.26 Mio. (World Rank 42)
Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: O‘zbekiston Respublikasi or Ўзбекистон Республикаси), is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south.