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Baxt

Baxt (, ) is a city in Sirdaryo District of Sirdaryo Region in Uzbekistan. The estimated population in 1968 was 9,100, and 17,500 in 2016.

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Place details

Locality: Baxt
Region: Sirdaryo Viloyati
Country: Oʻzbekiston

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Baxt
Settlement.native_name: Baxt
Settlement.settlement_type: City
Settlement.image_skyline: Baxt M34.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: M34 highway in Baxt
Settlement.pushpin_map: Uzbekistan
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 270
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Sirdaryo Province, Uzbekistan
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Uzbekistan
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human settlement
Official name: Baxt
Country: Uzbekistan
Located in: Sirdaryo Region
Population: +9600
Time zone: UTC+05:00
Image: Baxt M34.jpg

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Baxt (, ) is a city in Sirdaryo District of Sirdaryo Region in Uzbekistan. The estimated population in 1968 was 9,100, and 17,500 in 2016.

==History== Baxt was founded in 1899 as a settlement serving the passing loop #121 on the Central Asian Railway which connected Samarkand and Tashkent. In 1916, the passing loop was upgraded to a railway station. The station was named Velikoalexeyevskaya after the Russian prince Alexey, the apparent heir to the throne. In 1963, the settlement and the station were renamed Baxt (بخت which means "Happiness" in Persian). In 1980, Baxt was granted town status.