Samarkand

Samarkand is the city that is the bejewelled crown of the Silk Road, a rhapsody of ornate Islamic architecture with turquoise domes and soaring tiled minarets.
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  • City with about 546,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 700 metres (2,300 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code SKD
  • Description: city in southeastern Uzbekistan
  • Postal code: 140100
  • Also known as
    “Samarcand”
    “Samarqand”
    “Summarkùnd”
  • Historically known as
    “Мараканда”
    “Согдиана”
Xusenru, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Discover Bibi Khanym and Chorsu.
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Mosque
The Mosque is one of the most important monuments of Samarkand, .
Alaexis, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Museum
, also called Charsu, in Samarkand, …
Hasan Tohirov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
University
, or SSMU, is a higher educational institution in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jewish mahalla.
Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Neighborhood
is a neighborhood.

Samarkand

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Latitude
39.655° or 39° 39′ 18″ north
Longitude
66.9757° or 66° 58′ 33″ east
UN/LOCODE
UZ SKD
Open location code
8JF8MX4G+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245542318
Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
Geo­Names ID
1216265
Wiki­data ID
Q5753

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Samarkand” goes by many names.
SamarkandAchinese
SamarkandAfrikaans
SamerkandiAlbanian
ሳማርቃንድAmharic
ሳማርካንድAmharic
ΜαράκανδαAncient Greek (to 1453)
سمرقندArabic
SarmagantAragonese
ՍամարղանդArmenian
SamarcandaAsturian
СамаркъандAvaric
समरकंदAwadhi
समरक़न्दAwadhi
SəmərqəndAzerbaijani
СәмәрҡәндBashkir
SamarkandaBasque
SamarkandBavarian
СамаркандBelarusian
সমরকন্দBengali
SamarkandBosnian
SamarkandBreton
СамаркандBulgarian
SamarcandaCatalan
SamarqandCebuano
Samarqand (kapital sa lalawigan sa Uzbekistan)Cebuano
سەمەرقەندCentral Kurdish
СамаркандChechen
撒馬爾干Chinese
撒馬爾罕Chinese
撒马尔干Chinese
撒马尔罕Chinese
СамаркандChuvash
SamarkandCornish
SamarqandCrimean Tatar
SamarkandCroatian
SamarkandCzech
SamarkandDanish
SemerqandDimli (individual language)
SemerqendDimli (individual language)
SamarkandDutch
СамаркандEastern Mari
سمرقندEgyptian Arabic
SamarkandoEsperanto
SamarkandEstonian
SamarqandEstonian
SamarkandFinnish
SamarcandeFrench
SamarcandaGalician
სამარყანდიGeorgian
SamarkandGerman
SamarqandGerman
ΣαμαρκάνδηGreek
સમરકંદGujarati
SamarkandHausa
סמרקנדHebrew
समरक़ंदHindi
समरक़न्दHindi
SzamarkandHungarian
SamarkandIcelandic
SamarkandIdo
SamarkandIndonesian
SamarqandIndonesian
SamarkandIrish
maracandaItalian
SamarcandaItalian
サマルカンドJapanese
SamarkandJavanese
ಸಮರಖಂಡKannada
SamarqandKara-Kalpak
СамаркандKarachay-Balkar
СамарқанKazakh
SamarkandKikuyu
СамарканKirghiz
СамаркандKirghiz
SamarkandKomering
사마르칸트Korean
SemerkandKurdish
SemerqendKurdish
MaracandaLatin
SamarkandaLatvian
SamarkandasLithuanian
SamarkandLuxembourgish
СамаркандMacedonian
समरकन्दMaithili
SamarkandMalagasy
SamarkandMalay
സമർഖണ്ഡ്Malayalam
SamarkandMaltese
SamarkandaMaltese
समरकंदMarathi
سمرکندهMazanderani
SamarkandMin Nan Chinese
СамаркандMoksha
СамаркандMongolian
समरकन्द – संस्कृतिको चौबाटोNepali
SamarkandNorthern Frisian
SamarqandNorthern Frisian
SamarkandNorwegian
SamarkandNorwegian Bokmål
SamarkandNorwegian Nynorsk
SamarkandNyanja
SamarcandaOccitan (post 1500)
SamarkandOromo
СамаркандOssetian
ਸਮਰਕੰਦPanjabi
سمرقندPersian
SamarkandaPolish
SamarcandaPortuguese
سمرقندPushto
SamarkandRomanian
СамаркандRussian
समरकंदSanskrit
समरकन्दSanskrit
SamarkandScots
СамаркандSerbian
SamarkandSerbo-Croatian
SamarkandSilesian
سمرقندSindhi
සමර්කන්ද්Sinhala
SamarkandSlovak
SamarkandSlovenian
SamarkandSomali
SamarqandaSomali
سمرقندSouth Azerbaijani
SamarcandaSpanish
SamarkandaSpanish
SamarkandSwahili
SamarkandSwedish
SamarqandSwedish
СамарқандSwedish
SamarqandTachelhit
SamarqandTagalog
СамарқандTajik
SəmərkəndTalysh
SəmərqəndTalysh
சமர்கந்துTamil
СамаркандTatar
СәмәркандTatar
సమర్‌కండ్Telugu
సమర్‌ఖండ్Telugu
ซามาร์กันต์Thai
ซามาร์คันด์Thai
SemerkantTurkish
SamarkandTurkmen
SemerqendUighur
سەمەرقەنتUighur
СамаркандUkrainian
SamarkandUpper Sorbian
SamarqandUpper Sorbian
سمرقندUrdu
SamarqandUzbek
SamarcandaVenetian
SamarkandVeps
SamarkandVietnamese
SamarcandeWalloon
SamarqandWaray (Philippines)
SamarcandWelsh
ՍամարղանտWestern Armenian
SamarkandWestern Frisian
سمرقندWestern Panjabi
撒马尔罕Wu Chinese
СамаркаанYakut
סאמארקאנדYiddish
撒馬爾罕Yue Chinese

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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