Uzbekistan

Surface:   447.400 qkm

Capital:   Taschkent

Population and density: 31 Mio  /  70 Inhabitants per square kilometer

Population structure:

• 71 % Uzbek
• 5,1 % Russian
• 5% Tajik
• 4,1 % Karalpak
• 3,2 Kazakh
• 2,7 % Tatar
• 2,5 % Korean
• 6,4 % Others (Turkmen, Uyghur, Volga German, Armenian, Meskhetians, Azerbaijani and Kurds)

Currency:   Uzbek Som

Source: Wikipedia

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UNESCO World Heritage in Uzbekistan:

• Itchan Kala Chiva
• Historic Centre of Bukhara
• Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz (World Heritage in Danger)
• Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures

Intangible Cultural Heritage in Uzbekistan:

• Khorezm dance, Lazgi (2019)
• Margilan Crafts Development Centre, safeguarding of the atlas and adras making traditional technologies (2017)
• Palov culture and tradition (2016)
• Askiya, the art of wit (2014)
• Katta Ashula (2009)
• Shashmaqom music (2008)