Karakalpakstan Republic Қарақалпақстан Республикасы Qoraqalpog'iston Respublikasi Image File history File links KarakalpakstanFlag. ... Image File history File links Uzbekistan - Map of Karakalpakstan Republic File links The following pages link to this file: Karakalpakstan ...
Capital:	Nukus
Area:	160,000 km²
Population:	1,200,000 (2005)
Population density:	7.5 people/km²
ISO 3166-2:	UZ-QR

Karakalpakstan (Uzbek: Qoraqalpog'iston Respublikasi or Қорақалпоғистон Республикаси; Karakalpak: Қарақалпақстан Республикасы or Qaraqalpaqstan Respublikası) is an autonomous republic of Uzbekistan. It occupies the whole western end of Uzbekistan. The capital is Nukus (Karakalpak: Nökis). The Republic of Karakalpakstan has an area of 160,000 km². Its territory covers the classical land of Khwarezmia, also known as Khorezm. In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Nukus (Karakalpak: Nökis/Нөкис) is a city in Uzbekistan, and the capital of the autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic. ... -1... ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ... Karakalpak is a Northwestern Turkic language mainly spoken mostly by Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), along the lower Amu Darya river, and around the southern part of the Aral Sea. ... Nukus (Karakalpak: Nökis/Нөкис) is a city in Uzbekistan, and the capital of the autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic. ... Khwarezmia (also with various alternate spellings, including Chorasmia and Khorezm) was a state located on what was then the coast of the Aral Sea, including modern Karakalpakstan across the Ust-Urt plateau and perhaps extending to as far west as the eastern shores of the North Caspian Sea. ...

Demographics

The population of Karakalpakstan is estimated at 1,200,000, of whom 400,000 are of the Karakalpak ethic group, 400,000 are Uzbek, and 300,000 are Kazakh. The Karakalpak were formerly nomadic herders and fishers, and were first mentioned in the 16th century. Their name means "Black Hat", but Karakalpak culture was so lost through Sovietization that the original meaning of the black hat is now unknown. The Karakalpak language considered is closer to Kazakh and Turkish than to Uzbek. Indeed there are accusations that the ethnic group was an invention of the Soviet government to divide the Kazakh population. The language was written in a modified Cyrillic in Soviet times, and in Latin letters since 1996. Karakalpak (also Kara Kalpak; Qara-Qalpaq; and other variants. ... Kazakh may refer to An ethnic group: the Kazakhs The Kazakh language The Culture of Kazakhstan Suhbat. ... This article is about the political term. ... Karakalpak is a Northwestern Turkic language mainly spoken mostly by Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), along the lower Amu Darya river, and around the southern part of the Aral Sea. ... Kazak, also Kazakh and Qazaq (Қазақ тілі, Qazaq tilî) is a Turkic language with ISO 639 codes of kaz and kk. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Economy

The economy of the region, formerly heavily dependent on fisheries, is now supported by cotton, rice and melons. Hydroelectric power from a large Soviet-built station on the Amu Darya is also important. A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ... Cotton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa Rice refers to two species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) of grass, native to tropical and subtropical southeastern Asia and to Africa, which together provide more than one fifth of the calories consumed by humans. ... This article is about the fruits called melons. ... Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... Soviet redirects here. ... The Amu Darya (Darya means river) rises in the Pamirs and flows mainly north-west through the Hindu Kush, Uzbekistan to join the Aral Sea in a large delta. ...

The Amu Darya delta was once heavily populated, and supported extensive irrigation based agriculture for thousands of years. Under the Khorezm, the area attained considerable power and prosperity. However, the gradual climate change over the centuries, accelerated by the Aral Sea ecological disaster of the late 20th century has created a science-fiction like nightmare for Karakalpakstan. The ancient oasis of rivers, lakes, reed marshes, forests and farms are drying up, and being poisoned by wind-borne salt and chemicals from the dried bed of the Aral Sea. Allegedly summer temperatures have risen 10 degrees and winter temperatures have decreased by 10 degrees, and the number of health and respiratory problems has risen dramatically. High-altitude aerial view of irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ... Map of area around the Aral Sea. ... A magnified crystal of salt In chemistry, salt is a term used for ionic compounds composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. ...

Other cities include

• Hojeli (Uzbek: Hujayli; Russian Khodzheyli), site of extensive Khorezm ruins
• Moynaq, (Uzbek: Maynoq; Russian Muynak), former Aral Sea port now several miles inland

Khwarezmia (also with various alternate spellings, including Chorasmia and Khorezm) was a state located on what was then the coast of the Aral Sea, including modern Karakalpakstan across the Ust-Urt plateau and perhaps extending to as far west as the eastern shores of the North Caspian Sea. ... Moynaq (Uzbek: Maynoq; Russian Muynak), is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. ... Map of area around the Aral Sea. ...

See also

• Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast
• Karakalpak
• Provinces of Uzbekistan

Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast was created on February 19, 1925 by separating lands of the ethnic Karakalpaks from the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and Khoresm Peoples Soviet Republic. ... Karakalpak (also Kara Kalpak; Qara-Qalpaq; and other variants. ... Uzbekistan is divided into twelve provinces (singular: viloyat, plural: viloyatlar) (capitals in parentheses)- Andijon Province (Andijon) Buxoro Province (Buxoro) Fargona Province (Fargona) Jizzakh Province (Jizzakh) Namangan Province (Namangan) Navoiy Province (Navoiy) Qashqadaryo Province (Qarshi) Samarqand Province (Samarqand) Sirdaryo Province (Guliston) Surxondaryo Province (Termiz) Toshkent Province (Toshkent) Xorazm Province...

External links

• http://karakalpak.homestead.com/
• www.karakalpak.com