Uzbekistan: Aerial views of Tashkent

We went up the Tashkent TV Tower, which is what you see when you see images of Tashkent.  And from the top, there were aerial views of the city below.  

The snow-covered mountains in the background are not Uzbekistan - they are in Tajikistan and Krygyzstan.  If you look at where Tashkent is on the map, the borders between the 'Stan countries are very oddly drawn.  Our guide one day told us that the Soviets drew the borders intentionally strangely, to mix up nationalities and tribes so groups would be fighting each other rather than fighting the Soviets.