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Uzbekistan is one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, and its map is mostly desert with a string of oases along the mountains. Nearly everyone lives in those oases, so the region is the unit that tells you which valley a round is in, and there are only fourteen of them.
The first tier of Uzbekistan: twelve regions (viloyat), the Republic of Karakalpakstan and the city of Tashkent, which is a unit of its own. Tashkent the city and Tashkent Region around it are two different answers, and the region does not include the city even though it surrounds it.
Karakalpakstan is the giant. It fills the whole north west, more than a third of the country, and holds most of the dried bed of the Aral Sea. It is an autonomous republic with its own constitution, but on the map it is one shape. Khorezm is the small oasis region on the Amu Darya just south east of it, and south of Khorezm the desert Navoiy and Bukhara regions run to the Turkmen border.
The rest of the country lies along the mountains in the south and east. Samarkand and Jizzakh follow the Zarafshan valley, Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya run down to the Afghan border, and the Fergana Valley in the far east is shared between three small regions, Andijan, Namangan and Fergana, packed around a basin that is also partly in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
The groups are not an official classification. Uzbekistan has no tier between the regions and the country, so the quiz cuts the fourteen into the west, the centre, the south, the Fergana Valley and the Tashkent area to let you drill it a piece at a time. The regions are the Uzbekistan Districts grouped, so the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Karakalpakstan is the largest region by far, the whole north west of the country. Most of it is the Kyzylkum and Ustyurt deserts, and its capital Nukus stands on the Amu Darya, not far from where the Aral Sea used to be.
Tashkent is the capital and a first-level unit of its own, a small patch inside Tashkent Region in the north east. It is small enough to need a tap area, and zooming in is the way to reach it.
Khorezm is a small, densely farmed region on the lower Amu Darya, with the old walled city of Khiva at its heart. It sits against the Turkmen border, surrounded on three sides by Karakalpakstan.
Fourteen first-level units: twelve regions, the Republic of Karakalpakstan and the city of Tashkent.
Uzbekistan has no administrative tier between the regions and the country, so the quiz groups them into five parts of the map by position.
The districts, which number about 200. The quiz carries 199 of them, and they are their own quiz.
The tier below this one is Uzbekistan Districts. For another country at this level, see Kazakhstan Regions.
