Urgench
Urgench is a city in Khorezm, in Uzbekistan. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Trolleybuses in Urgench
The Urgench trolleybus system links Urgench, the capital city of Xorazm Region in western Uzbekistan, with the neighbouring city of Khiva. Since the closure of the Tashkent trolleybus system in 2010, it has been Uzbekistan's only trolleybus system.
Urgench
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Xorazm Region, Northern Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.5518° or 41° 33′ 6″ northLongitude
60.6313° or 60° 37′ 53″ eastPopulation
137,000Elevation
94 metres (308 feet)IATA airport code
UGCUnited Nations Location Code
UZ UGCOpen location code
8JH2HJ2J+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 245550581OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1512473Wikidata ID
Q472925
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Urgench” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أورقنج”
- Arabic: “اورگنچ”
- Arabic: “جرجانية”
- Armenian: “Ուրգենչ”
- Asturian: “Urgench”
- Azerbaijani: “Ürgənc”
- Bashkir: “Гүргәнж”
- Bashkir: “Үргәнес”
- Belarusian: “Ургенч”
- Bengali: “উরুগেঞ্চ”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “אורגנץ‘”
- Hindi: “उरगेन्च”
- Hindi: “गुरगंज”
- Hungarian: “Urganch”
- Indonesian: “Urgench”
- Irish: “Urgench”
- Italian: “Urgench”
- Japanese: “ウルゲンチ”
- Kannada: “ಉರ್ಜೆಂಛ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Úrgenish”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Úrgensh”
- Kazakh: “Үргеніш”
- Kazakh: “ҮРГЕНІШ”
- Kikuyu: “Urgench”
- Kirghiz: “Үргөнч”
- Korean: “우르겐치”
- Latvian: “Urganča”
- Lithuanian: “Urgenčas”
- Macedonian: “Ургенч”
- Malay: “Urgench”
- Marathi: “उरगेंच”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Urgench”
- Norwegian: “Urgench”
- Ossetian: “Ургенч”
- Panjabi: “ਉਰੁਗੇਂਚ”
- Persian: “گرگانج”
- Polish: “Urgencz”
- Portuguese: “Urgench”
- Portuguese: “Urguenche”
- Romanian: “Urghenci”
- Russian: “Ургенч”
- Sinhala: “උර්ගෙන්ච්”
- Slovak: “Urgenč”
- Slovenian: “Urgenč”
- South Azerbaijani: “اورگنج”
- Spanish: “Urgench”
- Swedish: “Urgentj”
- Tajik: “Урганҷ”
- Tamil: “ஊர்ஜென்ச்”
- Tatar: “Үргәнеч”
- Telugu: “అర్జెంచ్”
- Thai: “เออร์เกนช์”
- Turkish: “Urgenç”
- Turkish: “Ürgenç”
- Ukrainian: “Ургенч”
- Upper Sorbian: “Urganch”
- Urdu: “گرکانج”
- Uzbek: “Urganch”
- Venetian: “Urgench”
- Vietnamese: “Urgench”
- Waray (Philippines): “Urgench”
- Welsh: “Urgench”
- Western Panjabi: “اورگنج”
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