Uz Explained

UZ, Uz, or uz may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

Education

• Universidad de Zamboanga, Philippines
• University of Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
• University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Transport

• Ukrzaliznytsia, the national railway company of Ukraine
• Buraq Air (IATA code UZ), a Libyan airline

People

• Uz, son of Aram, one of the sons of Aram, according to the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10:23)
• Johann Uz (1720-1796), German anacreontic poet

Places

Asia

• Uz, Iran
• Uzbekistan, a country (ISO 3166: UZ)
  • .uz, its top-level domain
• Land of Uz, in the Bible, the homeland of Job
• Uyts, Armenia (also called Uz)

Elsewhere

• Uz (river), Romania
• Uz, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
• Uz, Kentucky, United States

Other uses

• Uz or Oghuz Turks, a group of loosely linked nomadic Turkic peoples
• Uzbek language (ISO 639-1 code "uz")
• Ústredňa Židov, a Judenrat in Slovakia during the Holocaust
• Toyota UZ engine

See also

• Uzès, a commune of the Gard French: département in southern France
• Uzi, a family of Israeli submachine guns