Total Area : 447,400 sq km
Land Area: 425,400 sq km
Water Area: 22,000 sq km
Climate description: mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east
Terrain description: mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
Arable Land Use: 9.61%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.8%
Irrigated Land: 41,980 sq km (2005)
Total Renewabe Water Resources: 48.87 cu km (2011)
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 56 cu km/yr
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 2,113 cu m/yr
Natural Hazards description: NA
Environmental Current Issues: shrinkage of the Aral Sea has resulted in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification and respiratory health problems; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from buried nuclear processing and agricultural chemicals, including DDT
Total Labor Force: 16.73 million (2012 est.)
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 25.9%
Agricultural Products description: textiles, food processing, machine building, metallurgy, mining, hydrocarbon extraction, chemicals
Land Area: 425,400 sq km
Water Area: 22,000 sq km
Climate description: mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east
Terrain description: mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in west
Arable Land Use: 9.61%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.8%
Irrigated Land: 41,980 sq km (2005)
Total Renewabe Water Resources: 48.87 cu km (2011)
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 56 cu km/yr
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 2,113 cu m/yr
Natural Hazards description: NA
Environmental Current Issues: shrinkage of the Aral Sea has resulted in growing concentrations of chemical pesticides and natural salts; these substances are then blown from the increasingly exposed lake bed and contribute to desertification and respiratory health problems; water pollution from industrial wastes and the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides is the cause of many human health disorders; increasing soil salination; soil contamination from buried nuclear processing and agricultural chemicals, including DDT
Total Labor Force: 16.73 million (2012 est.)
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 25.9%
Agricultural Products description: textiles, food processing, machine building, metallurgy, mining, hydrocarbon extraction, chemicals