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JUST THE FACTS:
- Size: 172,700 square miles - slightly larger than California
- Population: 24.8 million
- Time: There is a 9-hour difference between New York and Tashkent
- Climate/Weather: Mostly mid-latitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters,
semiarid grassland in east. Seems like it's similar to New England - just more extreme in all seasons and no humidity.
- Coastline: There is none! Agh! How can I live without a beach nearby?!?
- Currency: soum
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Uzbekistan is in Central Asia. The easiest way to reference it on a map is to find Russia
(that's kind of hard to miss) and then look down and left to the south western border. Kazakstan is the larger country bordering
Russia and you can find Uzbekistan underneath. Geographically, Uzbekistan is the heart of the region bordering each of former
Soviet Central Asia states - Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan as well as a little, teensy, tiny border with
Afghanistan.
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Here are some sites that can give you more
detailed information on Uzbekistan:
| The Peace Corps site is a good place to start. |
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| Peace Corps Uzbekistan Page |
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| Lonely Planet has great information. |
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