Kattakurgan
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Kattakurgan () is a city in the Samarqand Region of Uzbekistan, in the Zarafshon River valley. Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Ingichka. It has 90,600 inhabitants (2021). It is located on the road and railway between Bukhara and Samarkand.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kattaqo'rg'on shahri
- Region
- Samarqand Viloyati
- Country
- Oʻzbekiston
- Population
- 90,600
- Timezone
- Asia/Samarkand
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Kattakurgan
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Uzbekistan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Uzbekistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Uzbekistan
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Samarqand Region
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
- Settlement.population_total
- 90600
- Settlement.population_urban
- 100%
- Settlement.timezone
- GMT + 5
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 480
- Settlement.other_name
- Каттакурган
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Kattaqoʻrgʻon
- Country
- Uzbekistan
- Located in
- Zeravshan Okrug
- Official language
- Uzbek
- Population
- 10087
- Elevation
- 480
- Time zone
- UTC+05:00
- Image
- Kattakurgan bazar 2.jpg
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- inception
- 1601-00-00
- native label
- Kattaqoʻrgʻon / Каттақўрғон
- Commons category
- Kattakurgan, Uzbekistan
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- P12749
- Amman
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Sources and further reading
- References
Kattakurgan () is a city in the Samarqand Region of Uzbekistan, in the Zarafshon River valley. Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Ingichka. It has 90,600 inhabitants (2021). It is located on the road and railway between Bukhara and Samarkand.
==Etymology== The name Katta + qoʻrgʻon means "large city-fortress, mausoleum, hillfort, or kurgan" in Uzbek language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kattakurgan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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