Central Asia
Uzbekistan
Tashkent Region

Tashkent

Tashkent is the capital and largest city of , with a population of just over 3 million in 2024. It was an ancient city on the Silk Road, the network of trading routes between China and Europe, but what you see now is mostly modern - it was wrecked by an earthquake in 1966 and rebuilt in Soviet style, with humdrum medium-raise lining interminable boulevards.
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  • Type: City with 2,960,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Uzbekistan
  • Also known as: “Binkath”, “Chach”, “Choch”, “Shash”, “Shosh”, “TAS”, “Tashkand”, “Tashkend”, and “Toshkent”
  • Postal code: 100128
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pakhtakor Central Stadium and Navoi Theater.

Stadium
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The is a multi-purpose stadium in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It is one of the main stadiums in Uzbekistan, located in the center of Tashkent, in Shaykhantahur District.

Theater building
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The is the national opera theater in Tashkent, .

Museum
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The Amir Timur Museum is located in Tashkent, the capital of . It opened in 1996, and is dedicated to the Turco-Mongol warlord Amir Timur.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include ‘Tashkent City’. business center.

Neighborhood
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Tashkent City is a business center under construction in Tashkent. Located in the district, between Alisher Navoi Avenue, Olmazor, Furkat streets and Islam Karimov Avenue.

Tashkent

Latitude
41.3123° or 41° 18′ 44″ north
Longitude
69.2787° or 69° 16′ 43″ east
Population
2,960,000
Elevation
424 metres (1,391 feet)
IATA airport code
TAS
United Nations Location Code
UZ TAS
Open location code
8JHF876H+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27524773
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1512569
Wiki­data ID
Q269
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Tashkent” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ташкент”
  • Achinese: “Tashkent”
  • Afrikaans: “Tasjkent”
  • Albanian: “Tashkenti”
  • Amharic: “ታሽኬንት”
  • Arabic: “الشاش”
  • Arabic: “شاش”
  • Arabic: “طشقند”
  • Aragonese: “Tashkent”
  • Armenian: “Տաշքենդ”
  • Asturian: “Taxkent”
  • Avaric: “Ташкент”
  • Awadhi: “ताशकंद”
  • Azerbaijani: “Daşkənd”
  • Balinese: “Toshkent”
  • Bashkir: “Ташкәнт”
  • Bashkir: “Ташкент”
  • Basque: “Taxkent”
  • Belarusian: “Ташкент”
  • Bengali: “টাসকেন্ট”
  • Bengali: “তাশখন্দ”
  • Bosnian: “Taškent”
  • Breton: “Tochkent”
  • Bulgarian: “Ташкент”
  • Burmese: “တာ့ရှ်ကန့်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Taixkent”
  • Cebuano: “Tashkent”
  • Cebuano: “Toshkent Shahri”
  • Central Bikol: “Tashkent”
  • Central Kurdish: “تاشکەند”
  • Chechen: “Ташкент”
  • Chinese: “Tashkent”
  • Chinese: “塔什干”
  • Chinese: “石头城”
  • Chuvash: “Ташкент”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Taşkent”
  • Croatian: “Taškent”
  • Czech: “Taškent”
  • Danish: “Tasjkent”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Taşkent”
  • Dutch: “Tasjkent”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ташкент”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طشقند”
  • Erzya: “Ташкент ош”
  • Esperanto: “Taŝkento”
  • Estonian: “Taškent”
  • Estonian: “Toshkent”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Tashkent”
  • Finnish: “Tashkent”
  • Finnish: “Taškent”
  • French: “Tachkent”
  • Gagauz: “Taşkent”
  • Galician: “Tashkent”
  • Georgian: “ტაშკენტი”
  • German: “Taschkent”
  • Goan Konkani: “ताश्कंद”
  • Greek: “Τασκένδη”
  • Guarani: “Taskent”
  • Gujarati: “તાશ્કન્દ”
  • Haitian: “Tachkènt”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tashkent”
  • Hebrew: “טשקנט”
  • Hindi: “ताशकंद”
  • Hindi: “ताशकन्द”
  • Hungarian: “Taskent”
  • Icelandic: “Taskent”
  • Ido: “Tashkent”
  • Iloko: “Tashkent”
  • Inari Sami: “Taškent”
  • Indonesian: “Tashkent”
  • Indonesian: “Tоshkеnt”
  • Interlingua: “Tashkent”
  • Interlingue: “Tashkent”
  • Irish: “Tashkent”
  • Italian: “Tashkent”
  • Italian: “Taskent”
  • Italian: “Taškent”
  • Japanese: “タシケント”
  • Japanese: “タシュケント”
  • Kannada: “ತಾಷ್ಕೆಂಟ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tashkand”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tashkent”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Toshkent”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Ташкент”
  • Kazakh: “Ташкент”
  • Kazakh: “Тошкент”
  • Kazakh: “Чач қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Чач”
  • Kazakh: “Чачканд”
  • Kikuyu: “Tashkent”
  • Kirghiz: “Ташкен”
  • Komering: “Tashkent”
  • Komi: “Ташкент”
  • Korean: “따슈껜뜨”
  • Korean: “타슈켄트”
  • Korean: “토시켄트”
  • Kurdish: “Taşkend”
  • Kurdish: “Taşkent”
  • Lao: “ຕັສ​ເກັນ”
  • Latin: “Lithopolis”
  • Latin: “Taskentum”
  • Latvian: “Taškenta”
  • Ligurian: “Taskent”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Taxcent”
  • Literary Chinese: “達失干”
  • Lithuanian: “Taškentas”
  • Livvi: “Taškent”
  • Lombard: “Taškent”
  • Low German: “Taschkent”
  • Luxembourgish: “Taschkent”
  • Macedonian: “Ташкент”
  • Maithili: “तास्केन्ट”
  • Malagasy: “Tashkent”
  • Malay: “Tashkent”
  • Malayalam: “താഷ്കന്റ്”
  • Maltese: “Tashkent”
  • Maltese: “Taxkent”
  • Manx: “Tashkent”
  • Marathi: “ताश्कंद”
  • Mazanderani: “تاشکند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tashkent”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tashkent”
  • Minangkabau: “Tashkent”
  • Moksha: “Ташкэнт”
  • Mongolian: “Ташкент”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تاشكنت”
  • Navajo: “Tsébeekin Haalʼáhí”
  • Nepali: “ट्यासकेन्ट”
  • Nepali: “तास्केन्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Taschkent”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tasjkent”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tasjkent”
  • Norwegian: “Tasjkent”
  • Novial: “Tashkent”
  • Nyanja: “Tashkent”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tashkent”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Stānasburg”
  • Ossetian: “Ташкент”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਸ਼ਕੰਤ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਸ਼ਕੰਦ”
  • Papiamento: “Tashkent”
  • Persian: “تاشکند”
  • Picard: “Tachkent”
  • Piemontese: “Tashkent”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tashkent”
  • Polish: “Taszkent”
  • Polish: “Toshkent”
  • Portuguese: “Tachkent”
  • Portuguese: “Tashkent”
  • Portuguese: “Tasquente”
  • Portuguese: “Toshkand”
  • Portuguese: “Toshkent”
  • Portuguese: “Toshqand”
  • Pushto: “تاشكند”
  • Pushto: “تاشکند”
  • Romanian: “Tașkent”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ташкент”
  • Russian: “Ташкент”
  • Russian: “Тошкент”
  • Russian: “Хлебный город”
  • Samogitian: “Taškents”
  • Saraiki: “تاشقند”
  • Sardinian: “Tashkent”
  • Scots: “Tashkent”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tashkent”
  • Serbian: “Ташкент”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taškent”
  • Shona: “Tashkent”
  • Silesian: “Taszkent”
  • Sindhi: “تاشقند”
  • Sindhi: “تاشڪند”
  • Sinhala: “ටශ්කෙන්ට්”
  • Sinhala: “ටෂ්කෙන්ට්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Taškeʹntt”
  • Slovak: “Taškent”
  • Slovenian: “Taškent”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاشکند”
  • Spanish: “Tashkent”
  • Spanish: “Taskent”
  • Swahili: “Tashkent”
  • Swedish: “Tasjkent”
  • Tagalog: “Tashkent”
  • Tagalog: “Taskent”
  • Tajik: “Тошканд”
  • Talysh: “Daşkənd poytaxt”
  • Talysh: “Taškənt”
  • Tamil: “டாஷ்கென்ட்”
  • Tamil: “தாஷ்கண்ட்”
  • Tamil: “தாஷ்கந்து”
  • Tatar: “Ташкәнт”
  • Tatar: “Ташкент”
  • Telugu: “తాష్కెంట్”
  • Thai: “ทาชเคนต์”
  • Tibetan: “ཐ་ཧྲི་ཀན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཐ་ཧྲི་ཀེནྟ།”
  • Turkish: “Taşkent”
  • Turkmen: “Daşkent”
  • Tuvinian: “Ташкент”
  • Udmurt: “Ташкент”
  • Uighur: “Tashkent”
  • Uighur: “تاشكەنت”
  • Ukrainian: “Ташкент”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Taškent”
  • Urdu: “تاشقند”
  • Uzbek: “Toshkent , Тошкент”
  • Uzbek: “Toshkent shahri”
  • Uzbek: “Toshkent”
  • Venetian: “Taškent”
  • Veps: “Taškent”
  • Vietnamese: “Tashkent”
  • Volapük: “Tojkent”
  • Volapük: “Toshkent”
  • Võro: “Taškent”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tashkent”
  • Welsh: “Tashkent”
  • Western Armenian: “Թաշքենդ”
  • Western Armenian: “Թաշքենթ”
  • Western Frisian: “Tasjkent”
  • Western Mari: “Ташкент”
  • Western Panjabi: “تاشقند”
  • Western Panjabi: “تاشکند”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔什干”
  • Yakut: “Ташкент”
  • Yiddish: “טאשקענט”
  • Yoruba: “Tashkent”
  • Yue Chinese: “塔什干”
  • Zulu: “i-Tashkent”
  • “Taškent”
  • “Taškents”

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