UZ, Uz, or uz may refer to:
Uzbekistan (UK: , US: ; Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston pronounced [ozbekiˈstɒn]), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi), is a landlocked country in Central Asia.
The Uzi (Hebrew: עוזי, officially cased as UZI) (listen) is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns.
The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek/Ўзбек, pl. Oʻzbeklar/Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Uzbekistan and wider Central Asia, being the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.
Uzbek is a Turkic language that is the first official and only declared national language of Uzbekistan.
The Uzbin Valley ambush occurred when French ISAF troops were ambushed by Afghan militants in eastern Afghanistan on 18 August 2008. It took place outside the village of Spēṟ Kunday, of the Surobi District of Kabul province and resulted in heavy casualties to the French ISAF contingent.
Uzhhorod (Ukrainian: У́жгород, romanized: Užhorod, [ˈuʒɦɔrɔd]), Rusyn: Уґоград, romanized: Ugohrad, also Rusyn: Ужгород, romanized: Užhorod) previously and historically known as Ungvár (in Hungarian; German: Ungwar) is a city located in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary.