Provinces of Uzbekistan
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Uzbekistan is divided into 12 provinces (viloyatlar, singular – viloyat, viloyati in compound, e.g. Toshkent viloyati, Samarqand viloyati), 1 autonomous republic (respublika, respublikasi in compound, e.g. Qaraqalpaqstan Avtonom Respublikasi, Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic), and 1 independent city (shahar or shahri in compounds, e.g. Toshkent shahri, Tashkent city). Names are given below in the Uzbek language, although numerous variations of the transliterations of each name exist. The statistics for Toshkent Viloyati (Tashkent Province) also include the statistics for Toshkent Shahri (Tashkent City).
The provinces in turn are divided into 160 districts (tumanlar, singular tuman).
| Division | Capital City | Area (km²) |
Population (2008)[1] | Key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andijon Viloyati | Andijon | 4,200 | 2,477,900 | 2 |
| Buxoro Viloyati | Buxoro (Bukhara) | 39,400 | 1,576,800 | 3 |
| Farg'ona Viloyati | Farg'ona (Fergana) | 6,800 | 2,997,400 | 4 |
| Jizzax Viloyati | Jizzax | 20,500 | 1,090,900 | 5 |
| Xorazm Viloyati | Urganch | 6,300 | 1,517,600 | 13 |
| Namangan Viloyati | Namangan | 7,900 | 2,196,200 | 6 |
| Navoiy Viloyati | Navoiy | 110,800 | 834,100 | 7 |
| Qashqadaryo Viloyati | Qarshi | 28,400 | 2,537,600 | 8 |
| Qaraqalpaqstan Respublikasi | Nukus | 160,000 | 1,612,300 | 14 |
| Samarqand Viloyati | Samarqand | 16,400 | 3,032,000 | 9 |
| Sirdaryo Viloyati | Guliston | 5,100 | 698,100 | 10 |
| Surxondaryo Viloyati | Termez | 20,800 | 2,012,600 | 11 |
| Toshkent Viloyati | Toshkent (Tashkent) | 15,300 | 2,537,500 | 12 |
| Toshkent Shahri | Toshkent (Tashkent) | ??? | 2,192,700 | 1 |
[edit] Enclaves and exclaves
There are four Uzbek Exclaves, all of them surrounded by Kyrgyz territory in the Fergana Valley region where Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan meet. Two of them are the towns of: Sokh, area of 325 km² (125 sq mi) with a population of 42,800 in 1993 (although some estimates go as high as 70,000) (99% are Tajiks and the remainder Uzbeks [1]); and Shakhrimardan (also known as Shakirmardon or Shah-i-Mardan), area of 90 km² (35 sq mi) with a population of 5,100 in 1993 (91% are Uzbeks and the remainder Kyrgyz). The other two are the tiny territories of Chong-Kara (or Kalacha), roughly 3 km (1.9 mi) long by 1 km (0.6 mi) wide, and Dzhangail, a dot of land barely 2 or 3 km (1.5 mi) across. Chong-Kara is on the Sokh river, between the Uzbek border and the Sokh exclave.
Uzbekistan has a Tajikistan enclave, the village of Sarvan, which includes a narrow, long strip of land about 15 km (9 mi) long by 1 km (0.6 mi) wide, alongside the road from Angren to Kokand. Last but not least, there is a tiny Kyrgyzstan enclave, the village of Barak (population 627), between the towns of Margilan and Fergana.
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