Bukhara

Bukhara is a city historically astride the Silk Road in the region of . It has a wealth of architecture and culture and is a must-see destination on any tour of this region.
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  • Type: City with 289,000 residents
  • Description: city in Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan
  • Also known as: “Alt-Buchara”, “Bokhara”, “Bokhàra”, “Bouchara”, “Boukhara”, “Bukhoro”, “Buxoro”, “Staraya Bukhara”, and “Хара”
  • Postal code: 200100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kalan Minaret and Samanid Mausoleum.

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The Kalyan Minaret is a minaret of the complex in Bukhara, and one of the most prominent landmarks in the city. The minaret, designed by Bako, was built on an earlier existing structure called Kalyan by the Qarakhanid ruler Mohammad Arslan Khan in 1127 to summon Muslims to prayer five times a day.

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The is a mausoleum located in the northwestern part of Bukhara, , just outside its historic center. It was built in the 10th century CE as the resting place of the powerful and influential Islamic Samanid dynasty that ruled the Samanid Empire from approximately 900 to 1000.

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The is a massive fortress located in the city of Bukhara, , that was initially built and occupied around the 5th century AD. The Ark's current structure began to develop during the 16th century under the Shaybanid Uzbek dynasty, while all of its existing buildings were constructed in the last three centuries.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Medrese Kosh.

Locality
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is a locality.

Bukhara

Latitude
39.776° or 39° 46′ 34″ north
Longitude
64.4152° or 64° 24′ 55″ east
Population
289,000
Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)
IATA airport code
BHK
United Nations Location Code
UZ BHK
Open location code
8JF6QCG8+93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29926754
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1217662
Wiki­data ID
Q5764
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bukhara” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Boechara”
  • Albanian: “Buhara”
  • Albanian: “Buharaja”
  • Arabic: “بخارى”
  • Aragonese: “Bukhara”
  • Armenian: “Բուխարա”
  • Asturian: “Bukhará”
  • Avaric: “Бухара”
  • Awadhi: “बुख़ारा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buxara”
  • Bashkir: “Бохара”
  • Basque: “Bukhara”
  • Belarusian: “Бухара”
  • Bengali: “বুখারা”
  • Bengali: “বোখারা”
  • Bosnian: “Buhara”
  • Bulgarian: “Бухара”
  • Catalan: “Bukharà”
  • Cebuano: “Bukhara”
  • Central Kurdish: “بوخارا”
  • Chechen: “Бухара”
  • Chinese: “卜花兒”
  • Chinese: “布哈拉”
  • Chuvash: “Бухара”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Buhara”
  • Croatian: “Buhara”
  • Czech: “Buchara”
  • Danish: “Bukhara”
  • Dutch: “Buchara”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бухара”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بخارى”
  • Esperanto: “Buĥaro”
  • Estonian: “Buhhaara”
  • Estonian: “Buxoro”
  • Finnish: “Buhara”
  • French: “Bouchara”
  • French: “Boukhara”
  • Galician: “Bukhara”
  • Georgian: “ბუხარა”
  • German: “Buchara”
  • German: “Buxoro”
  • Greek: “Μπουχάρα”
  • Gujarati: “બુખારા”
  • Hebrew: “בוכרה”
  • Hindi: “बुख़ारा”
  • Hungarian: “Buhara”
  • Icelandic: “Búkara”
  • Ido: “Bukhara”
  • Indonesian: “Bukhara”
  • Irish: “Bukhara”
  • Italian: “Bucara”
  • Italian: “Bukhara”
  • Japanese: “ブハラ”
  • Kabyle: “Buxara”
  • Kannada: “ಬುಖಾರಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Buxara”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Buxoro”
  • Kazakh: “Бұхара”
  • Kikuyu: “Bukhara”
  • Kirghiz: “Бухара”
  • Komering: “Bukhara”
  • Korean: “부하라”
  • Kurdish: “Buxara”
  • Latin: “Bochara”
  • Latvian: “Buhāra”
  • Literary Chinese: “卜花兒”
  • Lithuanian: “Buchara”
  • Macedonian: “Бухара”
  • Maithili: “बुखरा”
  • Malagasy: “Bukhara”
  • Malay: “Bukhara”
  • Malay: “بخارى”
  • Malayalam: “ബുഖാറ”
  • Maltese: “Bukhara”
  • Marathi: “बुखारा”
  • Mazanderani: “بخارا”
  • Minangkabau: “Bukhara”
  • Mongolian: “Бухар”
  • Nepali: “बुखराको एतिहासिक केन्द्र”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bukhara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bukhara”
  • Norwegian: “Bukhara”
  • Ossetian: “Бухара”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਖਾਰਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਖ਼ਾਰਾ”
  • Persian: “بخارا”
  • Polish: “Buchara”
  • Polish: “Buxoro”
  • Portuguese: “Bucara”
  • Portuguese: “Bukhara”
  • Portuguese: “Buxoro”
  • Pushto: “بخارا”
  • Romanian: “Buhara”
  • Russian: “Бухара”
  • Rusyn: “Бухара”
  • Scots: “Bukhara”
  • Serbian: “Бухара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Buhara”
  • Sindhi: “بخارا”
  • Sinhala: “බුකාරා”
  • Slovak: “Buchara”
  • Slovenian: “Buhara”
  • Somali: “Bukhaara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوخارا”
  • Spanish: “Bocara”
  • Spanish: “Bochara”
  • Spanish: “Bocharia”
  • Spanish: “Bokhara”
  • Spanish: “Bokharah”
  • Spanish: “Boukhara”
  • Spanish: “Buhara”
  • Spanish: “Bujara”
  • Spanish: “Bujará”
  • Spanish: “Bukhār”
  • Spanish: “Bukhara”
  • Spanish: “Bukhārā”
  • Spanish: “Buxār”
  • Spanish: “Buxoro”
  • Spanish: “Fajkand”
  • Spanish: “Faykand”
  • Spanish: “Numijkat”
  • Spanish: “Numijkath”
  • Swahili: “Bukhara”
  • Swedish: “Buchara”
  • Swiss German: “Buchara”
  • Tajik: “Бухоро”
  • Talysh: “Buxara”
  • Tamil: “புகாரா”
  • Tatar: “Бохара”
  • Telugu: “బుఖారా”
  • Thai: “บูคารา”
  • Thai: “บูฆอรอ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Buchara”
  • Turkish: “Buhara”
  • Turkmen: “Buhara”
  • Uighur: “Buxara”
  • Uighur: “بۇخارا”
  • Ukrainian: “Бухара”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Buchara”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Buxoro”
  • Urdu: “بخارا”
  • Uzbek: “Buxoro”
  • Venetian: “Bukhara”
  • Veps: “Buhar”
  • Vietnamese: “Bukhara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukhara”
  • Western Panjabi: “بخارا”
  • Wu Chinese: “布哈拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “布哈拉”
  • “Buxoro”

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