Kitob
Kitob is a city in Kitob District of Qashqadaryo Region in Uzbekistan. It is the administrative center of Kitob District. Its population is 40,800. During the Soviet period, a major astronomical observatory was built at Kitab to commemorate its medieval reputation as the 'town of astronomers.'…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 45,700 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Kitab”
- Address: Kitob Tumani, Qashqadaryo Viloyati 180700
- Postal code: 180700
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shakhrisabz.
Shakhrisabz
Photo: HylgeriaK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shakhrisabz is a city of 100,000 people in Qashkadarya, Uzbekistan. The Historic Centre of Shahrisabz was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000.
Kitob
- Categories: human settlement, residential area, and locality
- Location: Qashqadaryo, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.12617° or 39° 7′ 34″ northLongitude
66.87463° or 66° 52′ 29″ eastPopulation
45,700Elevation
652 metres (2,139 feet)Open location code
8JF84VGF+FVOpenStreetMap ID
way 282196484OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Kitob” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كتاب (أوزبكستان)”
- Arabic: “كتاب”
- Bulgarian: “Китоб”
- Cebuano: “Kitob”
- Central Kurdish: “کیتاب”
- Dutch: “Kitab, Uzbekistan”
- Finnish: “Kitob”
- French: “Kitab”
- French: “Kitob”
- Hindi: “किताब”
- Irish: “Kitab”
- Japanese: “キタブ”
- Japanese: “キトブ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kitap”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kitob”
- Kazakh: “Китаб (қала)”
- Kazakh: “Китаб”
- Lithuanian: “Kitabas”
- Persian: “کتاب”
- Persian: “کیتاب، ازبکستان”
- Polish: “Kitob”
- Russian: “Китаб”
- Russian: “Китоб”
- Spanish: “Kitob”
- Tajik: “Китоб, Узбакистон”
- Tajik: “Китоб”
- Tatar: “Китаб”
- Turkish: “Kitap, Özbekistan”
- Turkish: “Kitap”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kitab”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kitob”
- Urdu: “کتاب، ازبکستان”
- Uzbek: “Kitob (shahar)”
- Uzbek: “Kitob”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kitob”. Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.