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Nukus

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Nukus (nks`), city (1989 pop. 170,362), capital of Karakalpak Republic, W Uzbekistan, in the Khwarazm oasis and on the Amu Darya River. It has alfalfa and food-processing and other light industries, as well as a notable modern art museum.
Nukus
a city in Uzbekistan, capital of the Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Republic, on the Amu Darya River. Pop.: 325 000 (2005 est.)


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Medecins Sans Frontieres Aral Sea Area Programme, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; ([dagger]) National Reference Centre for Mycobacteria, Borstel, Germany ([double dagger]) Ministry of Health, Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan; ([section]) Medecins Sans Frontieres, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and ([paragraph]) World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Central Asia by Aziz, Mohammed / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The study team chose food types for sampling based both on their capacity to accumulate organochlorine pesticides, and dioxins and on patterns of food consumption in Karakalpakstan known from a recent household dietary assessment carried out in Nukus (MSF 2001).
Assessment of dietary exposure to some persistent organic pollutants ... by Kolb, Anthony / Environmental Health Perspectives
In 1995, it sponsored a meeting in Nukus - a semi-autonomous region in Uzbekistan and the capital of Karakalpakstan, one of the hardest-hit regions in the Aral basin.
Dry tears of the Aral by Grabish, Beatrice / UN Chronicle
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