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1. UZBEKISTAN

2. Outline:
2 Some facts about Uzbekistan
3 The Great Silk Road
4 Information Technology in Uzbekistan:
Mobile operators
1 History in brief
Internet providers
5 Education in IT sphere

3. History of Uzbekistan
 Historically known as Turkestan
 Part of Soviet Union in the past
 Independent country since August 31,1991
 Famous for the Great Silk Road

4. Interesting Facts
 Status: Sovereign Republic
 Capital: Tashkent
 President: Islam A. Karimov since 1990
 Population: 27,865,738 (2010 est.)
 Area: 447,400 square kilometres (172,741 sq mi)
(the 5th largest by area and the 3rd largest by population
among the CIS countries)
 Official language: Uzbek
 Religion: Islam
 Famous for: cotton, gold

5. Interesting Facts
12 provinces and 1 autonomous republic:

6. The Great Silk Road
Network of trade routes
that linked Europe and
Asia
4,000 miles (6,500 km)
extension
Passed through
Uzbekistan cities:
Tashkent, Samarkand,
Bukhara and Khiva

7. The major and most well-known cities
Tashkent Samarkand
Bukhara Khiva

8. Education
 Primary and Secondary education
(obligatory)
 Private and Public schools
 Undergraduate education
 Universities and Institutes
 Postgraduate education
 Universities and Institutes
providing Master’s degree

9. Post-secondary
education
(Bachelor’s
degree)
a) 4 years of
obligatory primary
education (start
at the age of 7)
b) 2 stages:
1) Secondary
school
2) Secondary
specialized
Higher
education
(Master’s
degree)
Education
Primary
and
Secondary
Undergraduate Postgraduate

10. Information Technology in Higher Education
 Tashkent University of Information Technologies
 Tashkent State Technical University
named after A.R.Beruni
 Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent
 Moscow State University named after
M.V.Lomonosov Tashkent branch
 Many other universities in Uzbekistan has a
faculty of Information Technology