Asia
Central Asia

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is the most populous country in and is rich in history, culture, and diversity. It has been a part of numerous empires and was once a key part of the Silk Road, making it an excellent destination for the history buff.
Tap on a place
to explore it
gov.uz
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: dalbera, CC BY 2.0.

Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tashkent and Samarkand.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, with a population of just over 3 million in 2024. It was an ancient city on the Silk Road, the network of trading routes between China and Europe, but what you see now is mostly modern - it was wrecked by an earthquake in 1966 and rebuilt in Soviet style, with humdrum medium-raise lining interminable boulevards.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the city that is the bejewelled crown of the Silk Road, a rhapsody of ornate Islamic architecture with turquoise domes and soaring tiled minarets.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a city historically astride the Silk Road in the region of Uzbekistan. It has a wealth of architecture and culture and is a must-see destination on any tour of this region.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ferghana Valley and Northern Uzbekistan.

Photo: Bobyrr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Uzbek part of the is in the center of the valley, and in the extreme southeast of Uzbekistan. The whole valley, both this part and the parts in other countries, is on the main route of the old Silk Road route between and .

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
comprises nearly one half of Uzbekistan, dominated by the barren Kyzylkum Desert and the enormous semi-autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan.

Photo: Dave Proffer, CC BY 2.0.
is the most visited and most famous region of the historic Silk Road through . It is comprised of the Uzbekistani provinces of Samarkand and Bukhara, naturally, as well as the southern portion of Navoiy Province.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is a viloyat of Uzbekistan, located in the northeastern part of the country, between the River and the Tien Shan Mountains. It borders , , and , as well as the city of which is a region in its own right, forming an enclave entirely encircled by the territory of .

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is the southern, Tajik-dominated, mountainous portion of Uzbekistan to the south of . Parts of it are in the region historically known as .

Uzbekistan

Latitude of center
41.6° or 41° 36′ north
Longitude of center
63° east
Population
29,700,000
Area
447,400 km² (172,742 miles²)
Elevation
193 metres (633 feet)
Capital
Currency
Som (UZS)
Phone code
.uz
Internet domain
998
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424317428
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1512440
Wiki­data ID
Q265
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Uzbekistan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Uzbekistan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Узбекисҭан”
  • Abkhazian: “Узбеқьисҭан”
  • Achinese: “Uzbèkistan”
  • Adyghe: “Узбекистан”
  • Afrikaans: “Oesbekistan”
  • Akan: “Uzbɛkistan”
  • Albanian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Albanian: “Uzbekistani”
  • Amharic: “ኡዝቤኪስታን”
  • Amis: “Uzbekistan”
  • Angika: “उज्बेकिस्तान”
  • Arabic: “أوزبكستان”
  • Arabic: “ازبكستان”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية أوزبكستان”
  • Aragonese: “Uzbekistán”
  • Armenian: “Ուզբեկիստան”
  • Armenian: “Ուզբեկստան”
  • Arpitan: “Ouzbèquistan”
  • Arpitan: “Ozbèquistan”
  • Assamese: “উজবেকিস্তান”
  • Asturian: “Uzbekistán”
  • Asturian: “Uzbequistán”
  • Atayal: “Uzbekistan”
  • Avaric: “Узбек”
  • Avaric: “Узбекистан”
  • Awadhi: “उज्बेकिस्तान”
  • Aymara: “Usbik suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Özbəkistan”
  • Balinese: “Uzbékistan”
  • Bambara: “Uzebekisitani”
  • Bashkir: “Үзбәкстан”
  • Basque: “Uzbekistan”
  • Bavarian: “Usbekistan”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Ўзбэкістан”
  • Belarusian: “Узбекістан”
  • Belarusian: “Узбэкістан”
  • Bengali: “উজবেকিস্তান”
  • Bengali: “উজ্বেকিস্থান”
  • Betawi: “Usbèkistan”
  • Bhojpuri: “उज़्बेकिस्तान”
  • Bishnupriya: “উজবেকিস্তান”
  • Bislama: “Asbekistan”
  • Bosnian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Brahui: “Uzbakistán”
  • Breton: “Ouzbekistan”
  • Buginese: “Uzbekistan”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨘᨍᨅᨙᨀᨗᨔᨈᨊ”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Узбекистан”
  • Bulgarian: “Узбекистан”
  • Burmese: “ဥဇဘက်ကစ္စတန်”
  • Burmese: “ဥဇဘက်ကစ္စတန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “ဥဘက်ကစ္စတန်”
  • Catalan: “L’Uzbekistan”
  • Catalan: “República de l’Uzbekistan”
  • Catalan: “Uzbekistan”
  • Cebuano: “Osbekistan”
  • Cebuano: “Uzbekistan”
  • Central Bikol: “Usbekistan”
  • Central Kanuri: “Uzbekistan”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆزبەکستان”
  • Chavacano: “Uzbekistán”
  • Chechen: “Узбекистан”
  • Cherokee: “ᎤᏍᏇᎩᏍᏔᏂ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎤᏍᏇᎩᏍᏖᏂ”
  • Cheyenne: “Uzbekistan”
  • Chinese: “Uzbekistan”
  • Chinese: “Wūzībiékèsītǎn”
  • Chinese: “乌兹别克斯坦 / 烏茲別克”
  • Chinese: “乌兹别克斯坦”
  • Chinese: “烏孜別克斯坦”
  • Chinese: “烏茲別克”
  • Chinese: “烏茲別克斯坦”
  • Church Slavic: “Оуꙁбєкистанъ”
  • Chuvash: “Узбекистан”
  • Chuvash: “Ӳспекстан”
  • Cornish: “Pow Ousbek”
  • Corsican: “Uzbechistanu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ózbekístan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Özbekistan”
  • Croatian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Czech: “Republika Uzbekistán”
  • Czech: “Uzbekistán”
  • Dagbani: “Uzbekistan”
  • Danish: “Usbekistan”
  • Dhivehi: “އުޒްބެކިސްތާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ozbekıstan”
  • Dotyali: “उज्बेकिस्तान”
  • Dutch: “Oezbekistan”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Oezbekistan”
  • Dutch: “UZ”
  • Dutch: “UZB”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨུཛ་བེ་ཀིསི་ཏཱན་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨུས་བེག་གི་སཏཱན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Узбекистан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوزبيكيستان”
  • Erzya: “Узбекистан”
  • Esperanto: “Uzbekio”
  • Esperanto: “Uzbekistano”
  • Esperanto: “Uzbekujo”
  • Estonian: “Usbekistan”
  • Estonian: “Usbekistani Vabariik”
  • Ewe: “Uzbekistan nutome”
  • Ewe: “Uzbekistan”
  • Extremaduran: “Uzbequistán”
  • Faroese: “Usbekistan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Uzbekistan”
  • Finnish: “Uzbekistan”
  • Finnish: “Uzbekistanin tasavalta”
  • French: “la République d’Ouzbékistan”
  • French: “Ouzbekistan”
  • French: “Ouzbékistan”
  • French: “Ouzbekisthan”
  • French: “UZ”
  • Fulah: “Usbekistaan”
  • Gagauz: “Özbekistan”
  • Galician: “República de Uzbekistán”
  • Galician: “Uzbekistán”
  • Galician: “Uzbequistán”
  • Ganda: “Wuzibekisitaani”
  • Georgian: “უზბაკეთი”
  • Georgian: “უზბეკეთი”
  • German: “Usbekistan”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Uzbekistan”
  • Gilaki: “اۊزبکستان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Uzbekistan”
  • Goan Konkani: “उझबेकिस्तान”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Ουζμπεκιστάν”
  • Greek: “Ουζμπεκιστάν”
  • Guarani: “Uvekitã”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Ouzbékistan”
  • Gujarati: “ઉઝબેકિસ્તાન”
  • Gujarati: “ઉઝ્બેકિસ્તાન”
  • Haitian: “Ouzbekistan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Uzbekistan”
  • Hausa: “Uzbekistan”
  • Hausa: “Uzubekistan”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻUsepekikana”
  • Hebrew: “אוזבכיסתאן”
  • Hebrew: “אוזבקיסטאן”
  • Hebrew: “אוזבקיסטן”
  • Hindi: “उजबेकिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “उज़्बेकिस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Üzbég Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Üzbegisztán”
  • Icelandic: “Úsbekistan”
  • Ido: “Uzbekistan”
  • Igbo: “Uzbekistan”
  • Iloko: “Uzbekistan”
  • Inari Sami: “Uzbekistan täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Uzbekistan”
  • Indonesian: “Usbekistan”
  • Indonesian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Interlingua: “Uzbekistan”
  • Interlingue: “Uzbekistan”
  • Irish: “an Úisbéiceastáin”
  • Irish: “An Úisbéiceastáin”
  • Italian: “Repubblica dell’Uzbekistan”
  • Italian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Uzbekistan”
  • Japanese: “ウズベキスタン”
  • Japanese: “ウズベキスタン共和国”
  • Japanese: “ウズベク”
  • Javanese: “Usbèkistan”
  • Javanese: “Uzbèkistan”
  • Kabardian: “Узбэчыстэн”
  • Kabiyè: “Uzibekistanɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Uzbakistan”
  • Kabyle: “Uzbekistan”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Uzbekistan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Uzbekistani”
  • Kalmyk: “Сартин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಬೇಕಿಸ್ಥಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ózbekstan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Юзбекистан”
  • Kashmiri: “اُزبِکِستان”
  • Kashmiri: “اُزبیکِستان”
  • Kashubian: “Ùzbekistan”
  • Kazakh: “Өзбекстан”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ូសបេគីស្ថាន”
  • Kikuyu: “Uzbekistan”
  • Kikuyu: “Uzibekistani”
  • Kinaray-A: “Uzbëkistan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Uzubekisitani”
  • Kirghiz: “Өзбекстан Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Өзбекстан”
  • Komering: “UZ”
  • Komering: “UZB”
  • Komering: “Uzbek”
  • Komering: “Uzbekistan”
  • Komi: “Узбекистан”
  • Kongo: “Republic of Uzbekistan”
  • Kongo: “Uzbekistan”
  • Korean: “우즈베끼스딴”
  • Korean: “우즈베키스탄”
  • Korean: “우즈벡”
  • Kurdish: “Ûzbêkistan”
  • Kurdish: “ئوزبەکستان”
  • Ladin: “Usbechistan”
  • Ladino: “Uzbekistan”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດອຸສເບກິສຖານ”
  • Lao: “ອຸສເບກິສຖານ”
  • Lao: “ອຸສເບກິສະຖານ”
  • Latin: “Uzbecia”
  • Latvian: “Uzbekistāna”
  • Lezghian: “Узбекистан”
  • Ligurian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Limburgan: “Oesbekistan”
  • Limburgan: “Oezbekistan”
  • Lingala: “Uzbekistáni”
  • Lingala: “Uzibɛkisitá”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Uzbecistan”
  • Literary Chinese: “烏茲別克”
  • Literary Chinese: “烏茲別克斯坦”
  • Lithuanian: “Uzbekija”
  • Lithuanian: “Uzbekistanas”
  • Livvi: “Uzbekistuanu”
  • Lombard: “Uzbekistan”
  • Low German: “Usbekistan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Usbekistan”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Uzibekisita”
  • Luxembourgish: “Usbekistan”
  • Macedonian: “Узбекистан”
  • Madurese: “Uzbekistan”
  • Maithili: “उज्बेकिस्तान”
  • Malagasy: “Ozbekistan”
  • Malagasy: “Ozbekistàna”
  • Malagasy: “Uzbekistan”
  • Malay: “Uzbekistan”
  • Malayalam: “ഉസ്ബെക്കിസ്ഥാൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ഉസ്‌ബെക്കിസ്ഥാൻ”
  • Maltese: “l-Użbekistan”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Użbekistan”
  • Maltese: “Użbekistan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯎꯓꯕꯦꯀꯤꯁ꯭ꯇꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Yn Oosbeckistaan”
  • Maori: “Uhipeketāne”
  • Marathi: “उझबेकिस्तान”
  • Mazanderani: “ازبکستون”
  • Mazanderani: “اوزبکستون”
  • Mazanderani: “اوزبکسون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Uzbekistan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Uzbekistan”
  • Minangkabau: “Uzbekistan”
  • Mingrelian: “უზბეკეთი”
  • Mingrelian: “უზბეკეთიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Moksha: “Узбекистан”
  • Moksha: “Узбэкистан”
  • Mongolian: “Узбекистан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ؤزباكستان”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ؤزباكيستان”
  • Nauru: “Uzbekistan”
  • Navajo: “Naakʼaʼatʼą́ąhnii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “उज्बेकिस्तान”
  • Newari: “उज्बेकिस्तान”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Uzbekistan”
  • North Ndebele: “Uzbekistan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Usbekistaan”
  • Northern Luri: “ازبکستان”
  • Northern Sami: “Usbekistan”
  • Northern Sami: “Usbekistana dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Uzbekistan dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Uzbekistan”
  • Northern Sami: “Uzbekistana dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Uzbekistána”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Usbekistan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Usbekistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Usbekistan”
  • Norwegian: “Usbekistan”
  • Novial: “Uzbekistan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ozbequistan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܙܒܩܣܛܐܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ȳsbecalond”
  • Oriya: “ଉଜବେକିସ୍ତାନ”
  • Oriya: “ଉଜବେକିସ୍ଥାନ”
  • Oromo: “Uzbeekistaan”
  • Ossetian: “Узбекистан”
  • Pali: “उजबेकिस्थान”
  • Pampanga: “Usbekistan”
  • Pampanga: “Uzbakistan”
  • Pampanga: “Uzbekistan”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਜ਼ਬੇਕਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Usbekistan”
  • Papiamento: “Uzbekistan”
  • Persian: “ازبکستان”
  • Picard: “Ouzbékistan”
  • Piemontese: “Uzbekistan”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Uzbekistaan”
  • Polish: “Uzbekistan”
  • Portuguese: “República do Usbequistão”
  • Portuguese: “República do Uzbequistão”
  • Portuguese: “Usbequistão”
  • Portuguese: “Uzbequistão”
  • Pushto: “ازبکستان”
  • Pushto: “اوزبکستان”
  • Quechua: “Usbiksuyu”
  • Quechua: “Uswiksuyu”
  • Quechua: “Uzbekistán”
  • Romanian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Romansh: “Usbekistan”
  • Rundi: “Uzubekisitani”
  • Russia Buriat: “Узбекистан”
  • Russian: “Республика Узбекистан”
  • Russian: “Узбекистан”
  • Rusyn: “Узбекістан”
  • Sakizaya: “Uzbekistan”
  • Samoan: “Uzbekistan”
  • Samogitian: “Ozbėkistans”
  • Sango: “Uzbekistäan”
  • Sanskrit: “उजबेकिस्थान”
  • Sanskrit: “उजबेकिस्थानम्”
  • Santali: “ᱩᱡᱽᱵᱮᱠᱤᱥᱛᱟᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “ازبکستان”
  • Sardinian: “Uzbekistàn”
  • Scots: “Uzbekistan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Usbagastàn”
  • Serbian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Serbian: “Република Узбекистан”
  • Serbian: “Узбекистан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Shan: “ဢူႇၸပႄႉၵိတ်ႇသတၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Uzbekistan”
  • Sicilian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Silesian: “Uzbekistůn”
  • Silesian: “Ůzbekistůn”
  • Sindhi: “ازبڪستان”
  • Sinhala: “උස්බෙකිස්තානය”
  • Sinhala: “උස්බෙකිස්ථානය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Uzbekistaan tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Uzbekistaan”
  • Slovak: “Uzbecká republika”
  • Slovak: “Uzbekistan”
  • Slovenian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Somali: “Usbakistan”
  • Somali: “Usbekistan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اؤزبکیستان”
  • Spanish: “República de Uzbekistán”
  • Spanish: “Uzbekistan”
  • Spanish: “Uzbekistán”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵓⵣⴱⴰⴽⵉⵙⵜⴰⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Uzbékistan”
  • Swahili: “Uzbekistan”
  • Swahili: “Uzibekistani”
  • Swati: “IZubekhi”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Uzbekistan”
  • Swedish: “Uzbekistan”
  • Swiss German: “Usbekistan”
  • Tachelhit: “Uzbakistan”
  • Tagalog: “Usbekistan”
  • Tagalog: “Uzbekistan”
  • Tajik: “uz”
  • Tajik: “Узбакистон”
  • Tajik: “Ӯзбакистон”
  • Tajik: “Узбекистон”
  • Tajik: “Ӯзбекистон”
  • Tajik: “ҶУ”
  • Tajik: “ҶӮ”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Узбакистон”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Ӯзбакистон”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Узбекистон”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Ӯзбекистон”
  • Talysh: “Uzbəkistan”
  • Talysh: “Uzbəkiston”
  • Tamil: “உசுபெக்கிசுத்தான்”
  • Tamil: “உசுபெக்கித்தான்”
  • Tamil: “உஸ்பெகிஸ்தான்”
  • Taroko: “Uzbekistan”
  • Tatar: “Үзбәкстан”
  • Telugu: “ఉజ్బెకిస్తాన్”
  • Tetum: “Uzbekistaun”
  • Thai: “ประเทศอุซเบกิสถาน”
  • Thai: “อุซเบกิสถาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཨུ་ཟ་བྷེ་ཁི་སི་ཐན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨུ་ཟ་བེ་ཀི་སྟན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨུཛ་བེ་ཀིསྟཱན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ዩዝበኪስታን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻUsipekitani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Usbekistan”
  • Tumbuka: “Uzbekistan”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “أوزباكستان”
  • Turkish: “Özbekistan”
  • Turkmen: “Özbegistan”
  • Tuvinian: “Узбекистан”
  • Udmurt: “Узбекистан”
  • Uighur: “ئۆزبېكىستان”
  • Ukrainian: “Респу́бліка Узбекиста́н”
  • Ukrainian: “Узбекистан”
  • Ukrainian: “Узбекістан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Urdu: “ازبکستان”
  • Uzbek: “O’zbek”
  • Uzbek: “O‘zbekiston Respublikasi”
  • Uzbek: “O‘zbekiston”
  • Uzbek: “O’zbekiston”
  • Uzbek: “Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi”
  • Uzbek: “Oʻzbekiston”
  • Uzbek: “uz”
  • Uzbek: “UZB”
  • Uzbek: “Ŭzbekiston Respublikasi”
  • Venetian: “Uzbekistan”
  • Venetian: “Uzbèkistan”
  • Veps: “Uzbekistan”
  • Vietnamese: “U-dơ-bê-ki-xtan (Uzbekistan)”
  • Vietnamese: “U-dơ-bê-ki-xtan”
  • Vietnamese: “Uzbekistan”
  • Vlaams: “Oezbekistan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Uzbekistan”
  • Volapük: “Lusbekän”
  • Võro: “Usbekistan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Usbekistan”
  • Welsh: “Uzbekistan”
  • Welsh: “Wsbecistan”
  • Western Armenian: “Ուզպեքիստան”
  • Western Balochi: “ازبکستان”
  • Western Frisian: “Oezbekistan”
  • Western Panjabi: “ازبکستان”
  • Wolof: “Usbekistaan”
  • Wolof: “Usbekistaŋ”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌兹别克斯坦”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌字别基斯当”
  • Yakut: “Узбекистаан”
  • Yiddish: “אוזבעקיסטאן”
  • Yoruba: “Nṣibẹkisitani”
  • Yoruba: “Ùsbẹ̀kìstán”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏茲別克”
  • Zeeuws: “Oezbekistan”
  • Zhuang: “Uzbekistan”
  • Zulu: “i-Uzbekistan”
  • “ma Opeki”
  • “Osbekistan”
  • “Osbekistan Axkayotl”
  • “Ozbėkistans”
  • “Usbekistan”
  • “UZ”
  • “UZB”
  • “उज़्बेकिस्तान”

Central Asia: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Uzbekistan”. Photo: dalbera, CC BY 2.0.