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Onsdag 15. februar 2012

Usbekistan

The New York Times

Artikler om Usbekistan fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 29. december 2011
  • OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; America's Uzbekistan Problem

    There is perhaps no country on earth surrounded by more difficult neighbors than Afghanistan. When the U.S. wants to ship matériel to its troops there, it can't go through Tajikistan because the roads are so poor; it can't go through Turkmenistan because that country maintains an isolationist neutrality; and, for obvious reasons, it can't go...

  • EDITORIAL; Republicans and Foreign Policy

    For a while, we were concerned that the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination were not saying much about national security and foreign affairs. Now that a few have started, maybe they were better off before. Certainly, the Republican hopefuls have put to rest any lingering notion that their party is the one to trust with the...

  • WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA; U.S. and Uzbekistan Discuss More Supply Routes

    President Obama and Uzbekistan's president, Islam Karimov, discussed expanding use of the Central Asian country as a route to supply troops in Afghanistan, a United States official said Thursday, amid growing concern about the viability of Pakistan as a transit route. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also met with her Uzbek counterpart on...

Usbekistan

Wikipedia

Usbekistan er et land i Centralasien. Usbekistan grænser op til Kasakhstan i nord, Turkmenistan og Afghanistan i syd samt Tadsjikistan og Kirgisistan i øst. Usbekistan har tidligere været en del af Sovjetunionen, og erklærede sin uafhængighed 1. september 1991.

  • Indbyggertal: 26.851.195 (2005).
  • Areal: 447.400 km²
  • Hovedstad: Tasjkent
  • Statsform: republik
  • Religioner: Sunnimuslimer, russisk-ortodokse
  • Sprog: Usbekisk, russisk, tadsjikisk og kasakhisk
  • Valutaenhed: Som

Landet har tempereret, tørt fastlandsklima. Usbekistan er rigt på mineraler, og har verdens største guldmine.

Se også

  • Verdens lande
  • Centralasiatisk Selskab

 

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