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Kokand

Also known as Qo‘qon, Kokan, Qoqon, Khokand, Qo'qon, Cocand, Kokaun

Kokand ( ) is a city in Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley. Administratively, Kokand is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Muqimiy. The population of Kokand was approximately 259,700. The city lies southeast of Tashkent, west of Andijan, and west of Fergana. It is nicknamed "City of Winds".

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Kokand, officially named Qo‘qon, is a city in Uzbekistan located within the Fergana Region. It has served as the capital of the Khanate of Kokand and was part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. The city’s official language is Uzbek, and it operates in the UTC+05:00 time zone. Its earliest written record dates to 901.

The city has a population of 252,731 and covers an area of 40 square kilometers. It sits at an elevation of 409 meters above sea level. Kokand is described in sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Place details

Locality: Qoʻqon shahri
Region: Farg'ona Viloyati
Country: Oʻzbekiston
Population: 259,700
Timezone: Asia/Tashkent

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PM10: 13.7 µg/m³

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Kokand
Settlement.native_name: Qo‘qon / Қўқон
Settlement.other_name: Коканд
Settlement.pushpin_map: Uzbekistan
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Uzbekistan
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Fergana Region
Settlement.leader_title: Hokim
Settlement.leader_name: Ma'rufjon Usmonov
Settlement.area_total_km2: 40
Settlement.population_as_of: 2022
Settlement.population_total: 259700
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.population_demonym: Khoqandi
Settlement.timezone: +5
Settlement.elevation_m: 409

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: city
Official name: Qo‘qon
Country: Soviet Union
Located in: Fergana Region
Official language: Uzbek
Population: 206000
Area: 40
Elevation: 409
Time zone: UTC+05:00
Official website: kokand.uz
Image: KokandPalace.jpg

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Commons category: Kokand
category for people born here: Q8058519
category of associated people: Category:People from Kokand
topic's main category: Category:Kokand
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
time of earliest written record: 0901-00-00
postal code: 150700
native label: Qo‘qon, Қўқон

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Travel guide

Understand

thumb|Khan's Palace, built 1863-1874 Kokand is a trading city on the Silk Road, at a junction where a route going north to Tashkent branches off the main trail from Samarkand through the Ferghana Valley and over a pass to Kashgar. It has existed for at least a thousand years.

The city's glory days were 1709-1876 when it ruled the Kokand Kanate, which included parts of what are now four countries. The Russians put an end to that. Yakub Beg, who was born near Kokand and started his career in the Khan's army, built a kingdom around Kashgar and ruled much of what is now Xinjiang in the late 19th century, but Chinese forces ended that.

The population was 260,000 in 2022.

See

At one time, Kokand had over 300 mosques; some of those survive.

Connect

As of Sep 2024, Kokand and its approach highways have 4G from all Uzbek carriers, and town centre has 5G from Ucell.

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Encyclopedic overview

17 sections

Contents

Etymology
History
Early history
Russian colonial period
Main sights
The Palace of Khudayar Khan
Juma Mosque
Amin Beg Madrassah
Hamza Museum
Additional Sites
Education and culture
Economy
Notable people
References
Notes
Citations
External links

In 1877, when the first ethnographic works were done under the new imperial Russian administration, Kokand was reported and visually depicted on their maps as Tajik inhabited oasis (C.E de Ujfalvy ("Carte Ethnographique du Ferghanah, 1877"). The city, along with most of the eastern Fergana Valley, was included in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1920s as part of national delimitation in the Soviet Union.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kokand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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