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Uzbekistan: Western Uzbekistan
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General Standards of Conduct: Uzbekistan is an Islamic nation. Although modest Western-style clothing is appropriate in Tashkent, women should be prepared to dress conservatively in areas outside the capital. In rural areas, women in shorts, pants, short skirts, or sleeveless blouses face the risk of harassment. Men do not wear shorts or sleeveless shirts in public.
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Uzbekistan is a landlocked country that covers an area of about 447,400 sq km (about 172,700 sq mi). Mountains dominate the landscape in the east and northeast. Several branches of the western Tien Shan and Pamirs-Alai mountain systems cross into Uzbekistan from neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, with some peaks reaching above 4,000 m (13,000 ft). Areas of eastern Uzbekistan are especially prone to seismic disturbances; in 1966 a strong earthquake destroyed large portions of Toshkent.
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Mountainous regions of Uzbekistan can ... be rated as one of the most beautiful landscapes in Central Asia. This picturesque place is worth seeing for those who want to feel the harmony of merging with nature, to withdraw from reality and think of one's own place in life. Forests interchange with alpine meadows, which in turn give place to snow peaked summits with mighty tongues of glaciers. Western Tian-Shan mountaintops glitter under the blue sky, alpine pastures, savage gorges and river rapids that are difficult to access and for years have been an attraction for tourists. Summer time tourism activities include biking, hiking, trekking, rafting, canoeing, mountaineering, horse riding and leisure accommodation in new built mountain resorts. Winter in the mountains is as well full of opportunities for heliboarding, heliskiing, snowboarding and paragliding.
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Uzbekistan's rivers and many irrigation canals furnish water for the cotton crop, the country's main export. Large quantities of rice ... come from Uzbekistan (notably from the Zeravshan valley). Other crops include cereals, fruits, vegetables, alfalfa, wine grapes, sesame, tobacco, and sugarcane. There is extensive use of irrigation for farming, but the diversion of water for irrigation from the tributaries of the Aral Sea is drying up the sea and reducing the flow of freshwater in the region. Livestock are raised in the more arid western areas; Uzbekistan also produces Karakul sheep pelts. Cotton, silk, and wool provide the basis for Uzbekistan's extensive textile industry.
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Uzbekistan is located in the central part of Central Asia, between two great rivers the Amudarya and the Syrdarya. A combination of plains and mountains characterizes the country landscape. The plateau Ustyurt, the old bed of the river Amudarya, the Kizilkum desert, Karshy steppe are mixed here with Western Tien Shan, Ugam, Pskem, Chatkal, Turkestan, Zarafshan Mountain Ranges and fertile valleys of the Fergana and Samarkand Basin.
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Uzbekistan is rich in mineral resources. The Fergana Valley, an important cotton, silk, and wine region, is ... the site of oil fields. Western Uzbekistan has large natural-gas deposits. Gold, coal, lead, zinc, copper, tungsten, molybdenum, fluorspar, and uranium are also found. Cotton, gold, natural gas, oil, fertilizers, metals, textiles, food products, machinery, and automobiles are the major exports. Imports include machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, and metals.
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