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| Land Boudaries Total :
| 6,221 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east .
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| Area Total :
| 447,400 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 425,400 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 22,000 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly larger than California .
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| Coast Line :
| 0 km (doubly landlocked); note - Uzbekistan includes the southern portion of the Aral Sea with a 420 km shoreline .
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| Railways Total :
| 3,950 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 81,600 km .
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| Waterways :
| 1,100 km (2004) .
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Termiz (Amu Darya) .
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Map Urgench Urgena 1960,
Map Urgench Urgena 1961,
Map Urgench Urgena 1962,
Map Urgench Urgena 1963,
Map Urgench Urgena 1964,
Map Urgench Urgena 1965,
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Map Urgench Urgena 1967,
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Map Urgench Urgena 1969,
Map Urgench Urgena 1970,
Map Urgench Urgena 1971,
Map Urgench Urgena 1972,
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Map Urgench Urgena 1974,
Map Urgench Urgena 1975,
Map Urgench Urgena 1976,
Map Urgench Urgena 1977,
Map Urgench Urgena 1978,
Map Urgench Urgena 1979,
Map Urgench Urgena 1980,
Map Urgench Urgena 1981,
Map Urgench Urgena 1982,
Map Urgench Urgena 1983,
Map Urgench Urgena 1984,
Map Urgench Urgena 1985,
Map Urgench Urgena 1986,
Map Urgench Urgena 1987,
Map Urgench Urgena 1988,
Map Urgench Urgena 1989,
Map Urgench Urgena 1990,
Map Urgench Urgena 1991,
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Map Urgench Urgena 1999,
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Population on 01-Jan-99 : 139100
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Urgench (Uzbek:) is city (1999 pop. 139,100) in southern Uzbekistan. It is the capital of the Khorezm Province, on the Amu Darya River and the Shavat canal. The city is situated 450 km west of Bukhara across the Kyzyl Kum Desert. It is located at latitude 41? 32' 60N longitude 60? 37' 60E, at an altitude of 91 meters.
The history of the city goes back to the second half of the 18th century. The city should not be confused with the city of Konya-Urgench (also known as "Old Urgench" or "Gurgench") in Turkmenistan. The city of Old Urgench was relocated to Urgench after the Amu Darya river changed course in the 16th century, leaving the old town high and dry. New Urgench was a trade center of the Khanate of Khiva.
Modern Urgench is a Soviet-style city, with a plethora of Soviet monuments and cotton motifs adorning everything possible, from street lights to apartment houses. Of note is a monument to the twenty Komsomol members killed by Tekke basmachi on the banks of the Syr Darya in 1922, and a large statue to Muhammed al-Khwarizmi, the 9th century local mathematician who revolutionised algebra, outside the Hotel Urgench. A flat, drab place, it is the main gateway for tourists to Khiva 35 kilometres to the southeast, whose old city, known as Itchan Kala, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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