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Uzbekistan

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Uzbekistan has borders with Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. It is doubly landlocked, but includes the southern shoreline of the Aral Sea. Uzbekistan is rich in history. Samarkand was conquered by Alexander the great. Islam was introduced by Arabs in the 8th-9th century. The most famous leader to come from Uzbekistan is Tamerlane who was born in Shahrisabz south of Samarkand. Russia conquered Uzbekistan in the late 19th century. Stiff resistance to the Red Army after World War I was eventually suppressed and a socialist republic set up in 1924. During the Soviet era, intensive production of "white gold" (cotton) and grain led to overuse of agrochemicals and the depletion of water supplies, which have left the land poisoned and the Aral Sea and certain rivers half dry. Independent since 1991, the country is run by iron-fisted dictator Islam Karimov, whose security services killed several hundred protesters in Andijan in 2005 and have a taste for boiling dissidents to death.
Capital: Tashkent
Currency: Uzbek som (UZS)
Government: Republic, authoritarian presidential rule
Population: 25,563,441
Religion: Muslim 88% (mostly Sunnis), Eastern Orthodox 9%, other 3%
Time zone: UTC+5