Terrain of Uzbekistan: Mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along the course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan; shrinking Aral Sea in the west
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Uzbekistan is known for Bukhara, which is 2,000 years old and is located on the Silk Route. The country is also famous for a 1500-year-old district-level city called Khiva, and Samarkand