Uzbekistan is located in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan. Uzbek is the national language but Russian is also spoken with some frequency. Uzbekistan is a "republic; authoritarian presidential rule, with little power outside the executive branch."

"Uzbekistan has an ethnic Korean population that was forcibly relocated to the region by Stalin from the Soviet Far East in 1937-1938. There are also small groups of Armenians in Uzbekistan, mostly in Tashkent and Samarkand. The nation is 88% Muslim (mostly Sunni, with a 5% Shi'a minority), 9% Eastern Orthodox and 3% other faiths."
Source(s):
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uz.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbekistan


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