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UZBEKISTAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet
Synonyms:
Republic of Uzbekistan; Uzbek; Uzbekistan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Uzbekistan"):
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)
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)
Holonyms ("Uzbekistan" 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)
Holonyms ("Uzbekistan" is a member of...):
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)
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