Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Tashkent
- Region
- Asia, Central Asia
- Population
- 37,053,428 (2025)
- Area
- 447,400 km²
- Currency
- Uzbekistani soʻm (UZS)
- Languages
- Uzbek, Russian, Tajik
- Calling code
- +998
- Internet domain
- .uz
- ISO codes
- UZ, UZB, 860
- Time zone
- UTC+5:00 to UTC+5:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Uzbekistan covers about 447,400 square kilometres. By area it ranks 58th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Sweden and a little larger than Morocco. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 41° north, 64° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 37.1 million people live in Uzbekistan (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 42nd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.45 percent of the world's people. On average there are 83 people to each square kilometre. About 51 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 73 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Uzbek, Russian, Tajik. A person from Uzbekistan is called Uzbekistani.
Money and economy
The currency is the Uzbekistani soʻm (code UZS, symbol so'm). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 147 billion (2025), which is about US$ 3,968 for each person (2025).
Time
Uzbekistan spans 2 time zone areas, from UTC+5:00 to UTC+5:00. Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Tashkent | 1,978,028 |
| Andijon | 747,800 |
| Namangan | 713,220 |
| Samarkand | 595,200 |
| Nukus | 332,500 |
| Fergana | 299,200 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.