【Uzbekistan has a low population density】
Before coming to Uzbekistan, I had the impression that Uzbekistan was the most populous of the five Central Asian countries, and the population was mainly concentrated in basins and oases in the eastern region. So I thought that Uzbekistan was like Egypt, crowded everywhere.
Let me tell you a little bit about my experience in Egypt.
Egypt has a total population of 100 million, but the population is concentrated in oases on both sides of the Nile, and the area of oases is only 5%. That is, Egypt has a total area of 1 million square kilometers, and 100 million people are clustered in an area of 50,000 square kilometers. This has led to overcrowding in Egyptian cities, with people everywhere. I used to be in Alexandria, a coastal city in Egypt, walking on the seaside embankment in the evening, looking at the embankment for more than ten kilometers, all filled with people, looking very depressed.
I have the impression that Uzbekistan will be like Egypt and India, and everywhere it goes, it will be crowded.
Uzbekistan has a total population of 34 million and an area of 447,000 square kilometers, but the west is almost entirely desert, and the population is concentrated in the Fergana Basin and three major cities.
After coming, I found that it was not so exaggerated. [My title refers to population density, the flow of people on the street, the sense of oppression. 】
In the city of Fergana at 12 noon in the middle of the day, there was not a single car on the street ...
The city hall, the downtown square, the main road... There are few people walking on the street.
