"uzbekistan" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

domain member region: imu, islamic group of uzbekistan, islamic party of turkestan - a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries

is an instance of: asian country, asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent

belongs to: cis, commonwealth of independent states - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
has:
- capital of uzbek, tashkent, taskent - the capital of Uzbekistan
- samarcand, samarkand - city in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century
- kizil kum, kyzyl kum, qizil qum - a desert in Uzbekistan to the southeast of the Aral Sea
is a part of: asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations

same as: republic of uzbekistan, uzbek