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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is ringed entirely by other landlocked countries. The only other place like it is tiny Liechtenstein, in the Alps.

Where its story happens

Samarkand, at 39.65°N, 66.96°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.

Five things to know about Uzbekistan

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Uzbekistan, in Central Asia, south of Kazakhstan. See Uzbekistan on a map.
  2. Its Silk Road cities, Samarkand and Bukhara, are famous for their blue-tiled domes.
  3. The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, has mostly dried up here.
  4. The words 'algorithm' and 'algebra' go back to a scholar whose family came from its region of Khwarazm.
  5. It is one of only two countries on Earth where you must cross two borders to reach the sea.

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