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    REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian sovietplay

    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 "Republic 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 ("Republic of 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 ("Republic of 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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