The Central Asia Atlas of Natural Resources brings together a wealth of information related to living and nonliving natural resources in the five countries of Central Asia – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It contains an array of maps based on geographic information systems and remote-sensing images, numerous photographs, tabulations of important data, and extensive descriptive text that together illustrate and describe the region’s bountiful natural resources, its diversity of peoples, and their progress toward sustainable development.