| Climate Uzbekistan :
| mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east
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| Terrain Uzbekistan :
| mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
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| Elevation extremes lowest Uzbekistan :
| Sariqarnish Kuli -12 m
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| Elevation extremes highest Uzbekistan :
| Adelunga Toghi 4,301 m
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| Natural resources Uzbekistan :
| natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum
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| Land use arableland Uzbekistan :
| 10,83%
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| Irrigated land Uzbekistan :
| 42,810 sq km (1998 est.)
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| Natural hazards Uzbekistan :
| NA
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| Environment current issues Uzbekistan :
| shrinkage of the Aral Sea is resulting in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from buried nuclear processing and agricultural chemicals, including DDT
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| Geography note Uzbekistan :
| along with Liechtenstein, one of the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world
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