Asia–Pacific
Uzbekistan
Capital: Tashkent
- 36MPopulation
- 35MMuslim
- 96%Muslim share
- $2,900GDP per person
- 4.5%Unemployment
- 11%In poverty
- 100%Literacy
- 72Life expectancy
- System
- presidential republic
- In power
- President Shavkat Mirziyoyev
- Currency
- sum
- In the UN since
- 1,992
Life today
Kurash wrestling, silk ikat, plov feasts; the cotton fields turned to tech parks.
Word on the street
Telegram is the public square; the bazaars of Samarkand trade in melons and memory.
Names the world knows
- Imam al-Bukhari hadith scholar
- Al-Khwarizmi father of algebra
- Ibn Sina polymath
- Mirzo Ulugbek astronomer
Did you know?
Imam al-Bukhari compiled his Sahih in Bukhara — ~600,000 reports sifted to ~7,400.