Area:
Total: 447,400 sq km
Land: 425,400 sq km
Water: 22,000 sq km
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; note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline.
Maritime claims: None (doubly landlocked)
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, Sirdaryo (Syr Darya), 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.