Uzbekistan
Northern Uzbekistan
Xorazm Region

Khiva

Khiva is a city of 93,000 people in the western province of Khorezm in the Republic of . Along with and , Khiva is an important and often overlooked historical site on what was once the Great Silk Road.
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  • Type: Town with 55,600 residents
  • Description: city in Uzbekistan
  • Also known as: “Chiva” and “Xiva”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Itchan Kala and Kalta Minor Minaret.

Museum
Photo: Doron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the walled inner town of the city of Khiva, . Since 1990, it has been protected as a World Heritage Site. The old town retains more than 50 historic monuments and 250 old houses, dating primarily from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.

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Kaltaminor is a memorial minaret in Khiva. It is located on the front side of the Muhammad Amin Khan madrasa and sometimes considered as part of it.

City gate
Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ota Gate is the western gate of the , in the walled inner town of the city of Khiva, Uzbekistan. It was built during the reign of Olloqulixon in 1828-29 and is also known as the Shermuhammad Gate.

Khiva

Latitude
41.3775° or 41° 22′ 39″ north
Longitude
60.3635° or 60° 21′ 48″ east
Population
55,600
Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)
Open location code
8JH299H7+29
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246508659
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1513604
Wiki­data ID
Q486195
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Khiva” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خيوة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة خوارزم”
  • Armenian: “Խիվա”
  • Asturian: “Khiva”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xivə”
  • Bashkir: “Хиуа”
  • Basque: “Itchan Kala”
  • Basque: “Khiva”
  • Belarusian: “Хіва”
  • Bulgarian: “Хива”
  • Catalan: “Khiva”
  • Catalan: “Khivà”
  • Catalan: “Khiveh”
  • Catalan: “Khiwa”
  • Catalan: “Khorezm”
  • Catalan: “Хivа”
  • Catalan: “Хива”
  • Cebuano: “Khiwa”
  • Chechen: “Хива”
  • Chinese: “希瓦”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hiva”
  • Czech: “Chiva”
  • Danish: “Khiva”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Khiveh”
  • Dutch: “Chiveh”
  • Dutch: “Chiwa”
  • Dutch: “Khiva”
  • Dutch: “Xiva”
  • Eastern Mari: “Хива”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خيوه”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥiva”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥivo”
  • Estonian: “Hiiva”
  • Estonian: “Hiva”
  • Estonian: “Xiva”
  • Finnish: “Hiva”
  • Finnish: “Khiva”
  • French: “Khiva”
  • Georgian: “ხივა”
  • German: “Chiwa”
  • German: “Khiva”
  • German: “Xiva”
  • Greek: “Χίβα”
  • Hebrew: “חיווה”
  • Hebrew: “חיווה‎”
  • Hindi: “खीवा”
  • Hindi: “ख़ीवा”
  • Hungarian: “Hiva”
  • Hungarian: “Khiva”
  • Hungarian: “Xiva”
  • Indonesian: “Khiva (kota)”
  • Indonesian: “Khiva”
  • Irish: “Khiva”
  • Italian: “Khiva”
  • Japanese: “ヒヴァ”
  • Kannada: “ಖೀವ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xiva”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xiywa”
  • Kazakh: “Xïwa”
  • Kazakh: “Хиуа”
  • Kazakh: “حىيۋا”
  • Kikuyu: “Khiva”
  • Kirghiz: “Кыйба”
  • Kirghiz: “Хива”
  • Komering: “Khiva”
  • Korean: “시바”
  • Korean: “치바”
  • Korean: “히바”
  • Latin: “Chiva”
  • Latvian: “Hiva”
  • Lithuanian: “Chiva”
  • Malay: “Khiva”
  • Maltese: “Khiva”
  • Maltese: “Xiva”
  • Mongolian: “Хива”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Khiva”
  • Norwegian: “Khiva”
  • Ossetian: “Хива”
  • Panjabi: “ਖ਼ੀਵਾ”
  • Persian: “خیوق”
  • Persian: “خیوه”
  • Polish: “Chiwa”
  • Portuguese: “Khiva”
  • Portuguese: “Quiva”
  • Russian: “Хейвак”
  • Russian: “Хива”
  • Scots: “Khiva”
  • Serbian: “Хива”
  • Slovak: “Chiva”
  • Slovenian: “Hiva”
  • South Azerbaijani: “خیوه”
  • Spanish: “Jiva”
  • Spanish: “Khiva”
  • Swedish: “Chiva”
  • Swedish: “Chiwa”
  • Swedish: “Khiva”
  • Swedish: “Kovaresm”
  • Swedish: “Xiva”
  • Tajik: “Хева”
  • Talysh: “Xivə”
  • Tatar: “Хива”
  • Tatar: “Хивә”
  • Thai: “ฆีวา”
  • Turkish: “Hive”
  • Turkmen: “Hywa”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіва”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Xiva”
  • Urdu: “خیوا”
  • Urdu: “خیوہ”
  • Uzbek: “Xiva / Хива”
  • Uzbek: “Xiva”
  • Uzbek: “Хива”
  • Vietnamese: “Khiva”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Khiva”
  • Western Armenian: “Խիվա”
  • Western Panjabi: “خیوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “希瓦 (乌兹别克斯坦)”
  • Wu Chinese: “希瓦（乌兹别克斯坦）”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Khiva”. Photo: Euyasik, CC BY-SA 3.0.