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Uzbekistan

3 places
Uzbekistan holds the fabled heart of the Silk Road, the blue-tiled oasis cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva, where caravans crossed and Timur built a capital meant to stun the world. Double-landlocked between deserts, it is also where Soviet cotton drained the Aral Sea into a dust bowl, one of…

The West (Khiva, Bukhara & the Aral)2 places

The Centre (Samarkand)1 place