Urgench

Urgench is a city in Khorezm, in . It is a relatively new city, founded under the Russian Empire in the 19th century. An older city called Urgench was abandoned in the 18th century when a shift in a river course cut off its water supply.
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  • Type: City with 137,000 residents
  • Description: city in Uzbekistan
  • Also known as: “Novo-Urgench”, “Urganch”, “Yrgench”, and “Гургандж”
  • Postal code: 220100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Trolleybuses in Urgench.

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The Urgench trolleybus system links Urgench, the capital city of Xorazm Region in western , with the neighbouring city of . Since the closure of the Tashkent trolleybus system in 2010, it has been Uzbekistan's only trolleybus system.

Urgench

Latitude
41.5518° or 41° 33′ 6″ north
Longitude
60.6313° or 60° 37′ 53″ east
Population
137,000
Elevation
94 metres (308 feet)
IATA airport code
UGC
United Nations Location Code
UZ UGC
Open location code
8JH2HJ2J+PG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245550581
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1512473
Wiki­data ID
Q472925
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Urgench” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኡርጌንች”
  • Arabic: “أورجينج”
  • Arabic: “أورقنج”
  • Arabic: “اورگنچ”
  • Arabic: “جرجانية”
  • Armenian: “Ուրգենչ”
  • Asturian: “Urgench”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ürgenç”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ürgənc”
  • Bashkir: “Гүргәнж”
  • Bashkir: “Үргәнес”
  • Belarusian: “Ургенч”
  • Bengali: “উরুগেঞ্চ”
  • Bengali: “উর্গেঞ্চ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ургенч”
  • Catalan: “Urganch”
  • Catalan: “Urgench”
  • Cebuano: “Urganch”
  • Chinese: “乌尔根奇”
  • Chinese: “烏爾根奇”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Urgenç”
  • Czech: “Urgenč”
  • Danish: “Urgentj”
  • Dutch: “Urganch”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ургенч”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جرجانيه”
  • Esperanto: “Urgenĉo”
  • Estonian: “Urganch”
  • Finnish: “Urganch”
  • French: “Ourguentch”
  • Galician: “Urganch”
  • Galician: “Urgench - Urganch”
  • Georgian: “ურგენჩი”
  • German: “Urganch”
  • Greek: “Ούργκεντς”
  • Gujarati: “ઉરજેંચ”
  • Hausa: “Urgench”
  • Hebrew: “אורגנץ‘”
  • Hindi: “उरगेन्च”
  • Hindi: “उर्गेंच”
  • Hindi: “गुरगंज”
  • Hungarian: “Urganch”
  • Indonesian: “Urgench”
  • Irish: “Urgench”
  • Italian: “Urgench”
  • Japanese: “ウルゲンチ”
  • Javanese: “Urgench”
  • Kannada: “ಉರ್ಜೆಂಛ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Úrgenish”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Úrgensh”
  • Kazakh: “Үргеніш”
  • Kazakh: “ҮРГЕНІШ”
  • Kazakh: “Үргенш”
  • Kikuyu: “Urgench”
  • Kirghiz: “Урганч”
  • Kirghiz: “Үргөнч”
  • Korean: “우르겐치”
  • Latvian: “Urganča”
  • Lithuanian: “Urgenčas”
  • Macedonian: “Ургенч”
  • Malay: “Urgench”
  • Marathi: “उरगेंच”
  • Northern Frisian: “Urgentsch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Urgench”
  • Norwegian: “Urgench”
  • Oromo: “Urgench”
  • Ossetian: “Ургенч”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਰਗੇਂਚ”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਰੁਗੇਂਚ”
  • Persian: “ارجنج”
  • Persian: “گرگانج”
  • Polish: “Urgencz”
  • Portuguese: “Urgench”
  • Portuguese: “Urguenche”
  • Pushto: “ارجنچ”
  • Romanian: “Urghenci”
  • Russian: “Ургенч”
  • Sinhala: “උර්ගෙන්ච්”
  • Slovak: “Urgenč”
  • Slovenian: “Urgenč”
  • Somali: “Urgench”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اورگنج”
  • Spanish: “Urgench”
  • Swahili: “Urgench”
  • Swedish: “Urgentj”
  • Tajik: “Урганҷ”
  • Tajik: “Ургунҷ”
  • Tamil: “ஊர்ஜென்ச்”
  • Tatar: “Урганч”
  • Tatar: “Үргәнеч”
  • Telugu: “అర్జెంచ్”
  • Thai: “เออร์เกนช์”
  • Turkish: “Urgenç”
  • Turkish: “Ürgenç”
  • Ukrainian: “Ургенч”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Urganch”
  • Urdu: “ارجنچ”
  • Urdu: “گرکانج”
  • Uzbek: “Urganch”
  • Venetian: “Urgench”
  • Vietnamese: “Urgench”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Urgench”
  • Welsh: “Urgench”
  • Western Panjabi: “اورگنج”

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