Uzbekistan
Samarkand through Bukhara
Samarqand Region

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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  • Type: City with 573,000 residents
  • Description: city in southeastern Uzbekistan
  • Also known as: “Samarcand”, “Samarqand”, “Summarkund”, “Summarkùnd”, “Мараканда”, and “Согдиана”
  • Postal code: 140100
Photo: Xusenru, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bibi Khanym and Samarkand State Medical University.

Mosque
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
The Mosque is one of the most important monuments of Samarkand, . In the 15th century, it was one of the largest and most magnificent mosques in the Islamic world.

University
Photo: Hasan Tohirov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, or SSMU, is a higher educational institution in . The University is located in the city of Samarkand.

Museum
Photo: Alaexis, CC BY-SA 2.5.
, also called Charsu, in Samarkand, , is a domed, hexagonal shape building with a large central dome surrounded by six smaller domes. is located at southeast of the Registan at the intersection of the roads connecting Samarkand, , , and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jewish mahalla.

Neighborhood
Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a neighborhood.

Samarkand

Latitude
39.655° or 39° 39′ 18″ north
Longitude
66.9757° or 66° 58′ 33″ east
Population
573,000
Elevation
703 metres (2,306 feet)
IATA airport code
SKD
United Nations Location Code
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.
  • Achinese: “Samarkand”
  • Afrikaans: “Samarkand”
  • Albanian: “Samerkandi”
  • Amharic: “ሳማርቃንድ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μαράκανδα”
  • Arabic: “سمرقند”
  • Aragonese: “Sarmagant”
  • Armenian: “Սամարղանդ”
  • Asturian: “Samarcanda”
  • Avaric: “Самаркъанд”
  • Azerbaijani: “Səmərqənd”
  • Bashkir: “Сәмәрҡәнд”
  • Basque: “Samarkanda”
  • Bavarian: “Samarkand”
  • Belarusian: “Самарканд”
  • Bengali: “সমরকন্দ”
  • Bosnian: “Samarkand”
  • Breton: “Samarkand”
  • Bulgarian: “Самарканд”
  • Catalan: “Samarcanda”
  • Cebuano: “Samarqand (kapital sa lalawigan sa Uzbekistan)”
  • Cebuano: “Samarqand”
  • Central Kurdish: “سەمەرقەند”
  • Chechen: “Самарканд”
  • Chinese: “Samarkand”
  • Chinese: “撒馬爾干”
  • Chinese: “撒馬爾罕”
  • Chinese: “撒马尔干”
  • Chinese: “撒马尔罕”
  • Chuvash: “Самарканд”
  • Cornish: “Samarkand”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Samarqand”
  • Croatian: “Samarkand”
  • Czech: “Samarkand”
  • Danish: “Samarkand”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Semerqand”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Semerqend”
  • Dutch: “Samarkand”
  • Eastern Mari: “Самарканд”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سمرقند”
  • Esperanto: “Samarkando”
  • Estonian: “Samarkand”
  • Estonian: “Samarqand”
  • Finnish: “Samarkand”
  • French: “Samarcande”
  • Galician: “Samarcanda”
  • Georgian: “სამარყანდი”
  • German: “Samarkand”
  • German: “Samarqand”
  • Greek: “Σαμαρκάνδη”
  • Gujarati: “સમરકંદ”
  • Hebrew: “סמרקנד”
  • Hindi: “समरक़न्द”
  • Hungarian: “Szamarkand”
  • Icelandic: “Samarkand”
  • Ido: “Samarkand”
  • Indonesian: “Samarkand”
  • Indonesian: “Samarqand”
  • Irish: “Samarkand”
  • Italian: “maracanda”
  • Italian: “Samarcanda”
  • Japanese: “サマルカンド”
  • Kannada: “ಸಮರಖಂಡ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Samarqand”
  • Kazakh: “Самарқан”
  • Kikuyu: “Samarkand”
  • Kirghiz: “Самарканд”
  • Komering: “Samarkand”
  • Korean: “사마르칸트”
  • Kurdish: “Semerkand”
  • Kurdish: “Semerqend”
  • Latin: “Maracanda”
  • Latvian: “Samarkanda”
  • Lithuanian: “Samarkandas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Samarkand”
  • Macedonian: “Самарканд”
  • Maithili: “समरकन्द”
  • Malagasy: “Samarkand”
  • Malay: “Samarkand”
  • Malayalam: “സമർഖണ്ഡ്”
  • Maltese: “Samarkand”
  • Maltese: “Samarkanda”
  • Marathi: “समरकंद”
  • Mazanderani: “سمرکنده”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Samarkand”
  • Moksha: “Самарканд”
  • Mongolian: “Самарканд”
  • Nepali: “समरकन्द – संस्कृतिको चौबाटो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Samarkand”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samarkand”
  • Norwegian: “Samarkand”
  • Nyanja: “Samarkand”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Samarcanda”
  • Ossetian: “Самарканд”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਮਰਕੰਦ”
  • Persian: “سمرقند”
  • Polish: “Samarkanda”
  • Portuguese: “Samarcanda”
  • Pushto: “سمرقند”
  • Romanian: “Samarkand”
  • Russian: “Самарканд”
  • Scots: “Samarkand”
  • Serbian: “Самарканд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Samarkand”
  • Silesian: “Samarkand”
  • Sinhala: “සමර්කන්ද්”
  • Slovak: “Samarkand”
  • Slovenian: “Samarkand”
  • Somali: “Samarqanda”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سمرقند”
  • Spanish: “Samarcanda”
  • Spanish: “Samarkanda”
  • Swahili: “Samarkand”
  • Swedish: “Samarkand”
  • Swedish: “Samarqand”
  • Swedish: “Самарқанд”
  • Tachelhit: “Samarqand”
  • Tagalog: “Samarqand”
  • Tajik: “Самарқанд”
  • Talysh: “Səmərkənd”
  • Talysh: “Səmərqənd”
  • Tamil: “சமர்கந்து”
  • Tatar: “Сәмәрканд”
  • Telugu: “సమర్‌కండ్”
  • Telugu: “సమర్‌ఖండ్”
  • Thai: “ซามาร์กันต์”
  • Thai: “ซามาร์คันด์”
  • Turkish: “Semerkant”
  • Turkmen: “Samarkand”
  • Uighur: “Semerqend”
  • Uighur: “سەمەرقەنت”
  • Ukrainian: “Самарканд”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Samarkand”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Samarqand”
  • Urdu: “سمرقند”
  • Uzbek: “Samarqand”
  • Venetian: “Samarcanda”
  • Veps: “Samarkand”
  • Vietnamese: “Samarkand”
  • Walloon: “Samarcande”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Samarqand”
  • Welsh: “Samarcand”
  • Western Armenian: “Սամարղանտ”
  • Western Frisian: “Samarkand”
  • Western Panjabi: “سمرقند”
  • Wu Chinese: “撒马尔罕”
  • Yakut: “Самаркаан”
  • Yiddish: “סאמארקאנד”
  • Yue Chinese: “撒馬爾罕”

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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 “Samarkand”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.