Tashkent
Sign in to saveTashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3.1 million people as of July 1, 2025. It is located in northeastern Uzbekistan. Tashkent's history stretches back centuries as part of the ancient Silk Road, the network of trade routes that connected East and West. The city has long been a crossroads of cultures, goods, and ideas.
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Tashkent is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, and the most populous city in Central Asia with over 3.1 million people. Historically significant as a major hub on the ancient Silk Road, it has served for centuries as a crossroads where Eastern and Western cultures, goods, and ideas have met and mixed.
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Place details
- Locality
- Qashqar mahalla
- Country
- Oʻzbekiston
- Population
- 1,978,028
- Timezone
- Asia/Tashkent
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Article
36 sectionsContents
- History
- Etymology
- Early history
- History as Chach
- Islamic Caliphate
- Post Caliphate rule
- Mongol conquest
- Timurid period
- Uzbek Shaybanid's dynasty period
- Kazakh ruled period
- Tashkent state
- Kokand Khanate
- Colonial period
- Effect of the Russian Revolution
- Soviet period
- Capital of Uzbekistan
- Tashkent over the years
- The invention of television
- Geography
- Climate
- Ecology
- Demographics
- Districts
- Landmarks
- Education
- Media
- Transportation
- Entertainment and shopping
- Sport
- Notable people
- Twin towns – sister cities
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3.1 million people as of July 1, 2025. It is located in northeastern Uzbekistan. Tashkent's history stretches back centuries as part of the ancient Silk Road, the network of trade routes that connected East and West. The city has long been a crossroads of cultures, goods, and ideas.
Before the influence of Islam in the mid-8th century AD, Sogdian and Turkic culture was predominant. After Genghis Khan destroyed the city in 1219, it was rebuilt and profited from its location on the Silk Road. From the 18th to the 19th centuries, the city became an independent city-state, before being re-conquered by the Khanate of Kokand. In 1865, Tashkent fell to the Russian Empire; as a result, it became the capital of Russian Turkestan. In Soviet times, it witnessed major growth and demographic changes due to forced deportations from throughout the Soviet Union. Much of Tashkent was destroyed in the 1966 Tashkent earthquake, but it was soon rebuilt as a model Soviet city. It was the fourth-largest city in the Soviet Union at the time, after Moscow, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and Kiev (now Kyiv).