Domain names

General information Uzbekistan


Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly part of the Soviet Union. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south.

General information

CountryUzbekistan
Top-level domain (ccTLD)uz
Population26.593.000
LanguageUzbek
CurrencyUzbekistan som (Uzbekiston so'mi) (UZS)
Telephone+7
Area+447.400 km2
ContinentAsia

Flag

The flag of Uzbekistan was approved at the Seventh Extraordinary Session of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, on November 18, 1991.

The color blue represents water and the sky, white symbolizes holy peace, green symbolizes nature, and the red stripes symbolize the power of life.

The depiction of the crescent is connected to historical traditions of Uzbekistan. The 12 stars are representative of spiritual and divine symbols. The significance of the number 12 (the number of months in an astronomical calender) is the development of astronomy and scientific thought in Uzbekistan. There was also 12 principals that were used to lay the foundation of the Uzbek state.