{"id":1964,"date":"2018-04-27T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T04:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/?page_id=1964"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T10:02:27","slug":"nature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/destinations\/uzbekistan\/nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Geography of Uzbekistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The territory of Uzbekistan is a peculiar combination of flat and steep terrain. The plains are located on the south-west and north-west and consist of Ustyurt, the Amu-Darya delta and the Kyzyl-Kum desert. In central and south-western part of the desert are quite large mountain hill. Mountains and foothills, occupying about a third of the republic, are in the east and south-east, where the interlock with the powerful mountain formations in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The highest point of the mountains of the republic is 4,643 m.<\/p>\n<p>Vegetation patterns in Uzbekistan vary, largely according to altitude. The lowlands in the west have a thin natural cover of desert sedge and grass. The high foothills in the east support grass, and forests and brushwood appear on the hills. Forests cover less than 12 percent of Uzbekistan\u2019s area. Animal life in the deserts and plains includes rodents, foxes, wolves, and occasional gazelles and antelopes. Boars, roe deer bears, wolves, Siberian goats, and some lynx live in the high mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The largest rivers of both Uzbekistan and throughout Central Asia are Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya. The total length of the Amu-Darya River is 1437 km, and Syr-Darya river \u2013 2137 km. Syr-Darya, exceeding Amu-Darya by length, is less by water content.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geography of Uzbekistan The territory of Uzbekistan is a peculiar combination of flat and steep terrain. The plains are located on the south-west and north-west and consist of Ustyurt, the Amu-Darya delta and the Kyzyl-Kum desert. In central and south-western part of the desert are quite large mountain hill. Mountains and foothills, occupying about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1083,"parent":901,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_object.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10939,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964\/revisions\/10939"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ak-sai.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}