Cities of Uzbekistan docx

Fergana

Fergana is a city in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southern edge of the Fergana Valley. Fergana is about 420 km east of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and about 75 km west of Andijan. Fergana has been a center of oil production in the Fergana Valley since the region's first oil refinery was built near the city in 1908. Since then more refineries have been added, and Fergana is one of the most important centers of oil production and refining in Uzbekistan. Natural gas from western Uzbekistan is...

Karshi

Karshi is a city in southern Uzbekistan, in Kashqadaryo province, about 520 km south-southwest of Tashkent, and about 335 km north of Uzbekistan's border with Afghanistan. In the early 1970s, the first section of a major irrigation project was completed to divert water from the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan eastward into Uzbekistan to irrigate the land surrounding Karshi. The water from the Amu Darya is in addition to water already being diverted from the Zeravshan River near Bukhara.

Khiva (Khorezm)

The history of Khorezm dates back so far, to ancient times, that only a few civilizations can equal its age. Many hundreds of years before the opening of the Great Silk Road, ancient Khorezm was already connected by water and land with Europe and the Orient, Siberia and the civilizations of the South. The great world civilizations of the time mingled in Khorezm. Their cultural interaction preceded the opening of the Great Silk Road. Khiva is located to the west of Khorezm region, at the...

Kokand

Kokand is a city in eastern Uzbekistan, in the Fergana province at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley. Kokand is 228 km southeast of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, 115 km west of Andijan, and 88 km west of the city of Fergana.

Kokand sits at the junction of two main routes into the Fergana Valley, one leading northwest over the mountains to Tashkent, and the other west through Khujand. As a result, Kokand is the main transportation junction in the Fergana Valley. Kokand is a center for...