Location: Central Asia Map: View map Geographic coordinates: 41 00 N, 64 00 E Map references: Asia Area: total: 447,400 sq km land: 425,400 sq km water: 22,000 sq km Area - comparative: slightly larger than California Land boundaries: total: 6,221 km border countries: Afghanistan 137 km, Kazakhstan 2,203 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,099 km, Tajikistan 1,161 km, Turkmenistan 1,621 km Coastline: 0 km (doubly landlocked) note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline Climate: mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters semiarid grassland in east Terrain: mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan shrinking Aral Sea in west Elevation extremes: lowest point: Sariqarnish Kuli -12 m highest point: Adelunga Toghi 4,301 m Natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum Land use: arable land: 10.83% permanent crops: 0.83% other: 88.34% (2001) Irrigated land: 42,810 sq km (1998 est.) Natural hazards: NA Geography - note: along with Liechtenstein, one of the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world

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