proper noun
Uzbekistan
uuz-beh-kih-STAHN
proper noun
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A landlocked country in Central Asia, whose capital is Tashkent.
"Uzbekistan is famous for the ancient Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara."
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Etymology
From Russian Uzbekistan, from Persian, ultimately combining "Uzbek" with the Persian suffix -stan ("place of").