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Detailed map of Uzbekistan, 1995. Uzbekistan is a country in Central Asia, located north of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.With an area of approximately 448,900 square kilometers, Uzbekistan stretches 1,425 km (885 mi) from west to east and 930 km (580 mi) from north to south. [1]
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO, Russian: Организация Договора о коллективной безопасности (ОДКБ), romanized: Organizacija dogovora o kollektivnoj bezopasnosti (ODKB)) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, [note 1] Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and ...
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
An enlargeable topographic map of Uzbekistan. Geography of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is: a doubly landlocked country [1] Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia. Asia. Central Asia; Time zone: Uzbekistan Time ; Extreme points of Uzbekistan High: Alpomish Peak 4,668 m (15,315 ft) Low: Sariqamish Kuli −12 m (−39 ft)
These varying definitions are not generally reflected in the map of Asia as a whole; for example, Egypt is typically included in the Middle East, but not in Asia, even though the bulk of the Middle East is in Asia. The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Bab-el-Mandeb.
Uzbekistan, [a] officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, [b] is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein.
Uzbekistan is a member of the following international organizations and partnerships: Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) - from 2006 [2] Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (CAREC) [3] Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) - from 4 January 1992; Conference on Interaction & Confidence Measures Building in Asia (CICA) [4]