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Uyo
Uyo is the capital of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, since 1987, an Ibibio city and LGA of 362 km². UN estimates 1.57 million residents in 2025; rapid unplanned expansion, oil-funded growth, and infrastructure gaps define it.
Uyoku dantai (右翼団体)
Uyoku dantai (右翼団体) are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups. They conduct street propaganda using vehicles and include online nationalists, netto uyoku, who are active since the 2000s.
Uys Krige
Uys Krige (Mattheus Uys Krige, 1910–1987) was a South African poet, playwright, and translator in Afrikaans and English, a member of the Dertigers who won two Hertzog Prizes.
Uyun al-akhbar
Uyun al-akhbar (عيون الأخبار) is a seven-volume Arabic history of the Ismaili dawa by Idris Imad al-Din, the nineteenth dai mutlaq of the Tayyibi Ismailis in Yemen.
Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy (ఉయ్యాలవాడ నరసింహ రెడ్డి)
Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy (ఉయ్యాలవాడ నరసింహ రెడ్డి), Telugu poligar of Koilkuntla, led the 1846–47 Rayalaseema revolt against the East India Company, raided the Koilkuntla treasury, fought at Giddalur, and was publicly hanged.
UZ For
UZ For (UZ Fornacis) is an eclipsing polar cataclysmic variable with a 126.5-minute orbit, known for unconfirmed eclipse-timing evidence of two giant planets of about 6.3 and 7.7 Jupiter masses.
UZ-CHS-BC study
The UZ-CHS-BC study, or University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Birth Cohort study, follows 1,200 mother-infant pairs in Harare to compare HIV-exposed and unexposed infants.
Uzair (عزير)
Uzair (عزير, Uzayr) is a figure mentioned once in the Quran, at 9:30, where the Jews are said to call him the son of God; he is usually identified with Ezra.
Uzair Baloch
Uzair Jan Baloch, Lyari gang war kingpin and chief of the outlawed Peoples Amn Committee in Karachi; convicted by military court in 2020 to 12 years for spying for Iranian intelligence; acquitted in many civilian cases.
Uzak Şehir
Uzak Şehir ("Distant City") is a Turkish prime-time drama on Kanal D since 11 November 2024, adapted from the Lebanese series Al Hayba, starring Ozan Akbaba and Sinem Ünsal as Cihan and Alya Albora, filmed in Mardin, with a 21.4% premiere rating and 13.24 season-2 average.
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (宇崎ちゃんは遊びたい！)
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! (宇崎ちゃんは遊びたい！) is Take's web manga about underclassman Uzaki Hana pestering senior Sakurai Shinichi; serialized on Dra-Dra Sharp#, adapted into 2020 and 2022 anime seasons by ENGI, published in English by Seven Seas.
Uzalo
Uzalo, also known as Uzalo: Blood is Forever, is a South African isiZulu-language soap opera on SABC 1 since 2015, set in KwaMashu, produced by Stained Glass Productions, and South Africa's most-watched drama.
Uzama N'Ihinron
The Uzama N'Ihinron is the council of the seven most senior chiefs of the Benin Kingdom, established in the 13th century by Oba Eweka I to inaugurate each new Oba.
Uzari & Maimuna
Uzari & Maimuna is a Belarusian musical duo pairing singer-composer Uzari (Yuri Navrotsky) with classical violinist Maimuna; after winning Eurofest 2015, they represented Belarus at Eurovision 2015 with "Time".
Uzbek conquest of Transoxiana
The Shaybanid conquest of Transoxiana was the takeover of the Timurid lands between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya by Uzbek forces under Muhammad Shaybani Khan between 1500 and 1507.
Uzbek Khanate
The Uzbek Khanate was a nomadic Turco-Mongol state ruled by Abu'l-Khayr Khan from 1428, the major power between the Ural and Irtysh rivers until his death in 1468.
Uzbek language
Uzbek (Oʻzbek tili) is a Karluk Turkic language with about 30 million speakers, mainly in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Agglutinative, SOV, without vowel harmony; written in Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, and since 2026 a reformed 28-letter Latin alphabet.
Uzbek literature
Uzbek literature is the oral and written literature of the Uzbek language and its predecessor Chagatai in Central Asia, with Alisher Navoi as its central figure.
Uzbek modernist literature
Uzbek modernist literature is the prose, poetry, and drama created by the Jadid reformers in Turkestan from about 1905, ending when Stalinist purges wiped out the generation by 1939.
Uzbek plov
Uzbek plov (osh, palov): Uzbekistan's national rice dish, cooked as zirvak of meat, onion and carrot layered with rice in a kazan; UNESCO-listed in 2016, with distinct regional styles.
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Oʻzbekiston Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasi), created 27 October 1924 and dissolved 31 August 1991, was a Soviet union republic centered on Tashkent, defined by two-thirds of Soviet cotton output, the Aral Sea crisis, and the 1975–1991 Cotton Affair.
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (Oʻzbekiston), formally the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, independent from the Soviet Union in 1991 and the region's most populous state.
Uzbekistan Airways
Uzbekistan Airways (O‘zbekiston Havo Yo‘llari) is the national flag carrier airline of Uzbekistan, a joint stock company founded in 1992 after independence, with its hub at Tashkent and a fleet of 47 aircraft.
Uzbekistan Fund for Reconstruction and Development (UFRD)
The Uzbekistan Fund for Reconstruction and Development (UFRD) is a state fund created by presidential decree in 2006 that finances modernization of Uzbekistan's core industries and infrastructure.
Uzbekistan national football team
Uzbekistan national football team, the White Wolves, Uzbekistan's men's team under the UFA in the AFC; 1994 Asian Games champions and first Central Asian side at a World Cup, debuting at 2026 under Fabio Cannavaro.
Uzbekistan Railways
Uzbekistan Railways, O'zbekiston Temir Yo'llari, is the 100% state-owned company running Uzbekistan's 1,520 mm broad-gauge network, founded in 1994 after the Soviet Central Asian Railway dissolved.
Uzbekistan–Tajikistan relations
Uzbekistan–Tajikistan relations are the diplomatic, economic, and security ties between the neighboring Central Asian states, which moved from a mined, militarized border to an alliance treaty in 2025.
Uzbekistani sum
The Uzbekistani sum (so'm) is the national currency of Uzbekistan, introduced on 1 July 1994, replacing sum-coupons, and issued by the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Uzbekkomir
Uzbekkomir (O‘zbekko‘mir), also rendered Uzbekcoal JSC and formerly Uzbekugol, is Uzbekistan's joint-stock coal mining company, headquartered in Angren, which operates the Angren open-pit mine and accounts for nearly 80% of national coal output.
Uzbekneftegaz
Uzbekneftegaz, the state-owned national oil and gas company of Uzbekistan, was founded in 1992 by decree of President Islam Karimov and is the country's largest natural gas producer.