Zarafshon
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Zarafshon (, ) is a city in the center of Uzbekistan's Navoiy Region. Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Muruntau. It has an area of and 85,100 inhabitants (2021).
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Place details
- Locality
- Zarafshon shahri
- Region
- Navoiy Viloyati
- Country
- Oʻzbekiston
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Zarafshon
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_caption
- Zarafshan
- 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
- Navoiy Region
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 20
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2021
- Settlement.population_total
- 85100
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- UZT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +05:00
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 400
- Settlement.postal_code
- 706801
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Zarafshon (, ) is a city in the center of Uzbekistan's Navoiy Region. Administratively, it is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Muruntau. It has an area of and 85,100 inhabitants (2021).
Zarafshon is called "the gold capital of Uzbekistan". It is home of the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Company's Central Mining Administration, charged with mining and processing gold from the nearby Muruntau open-pit mine. Between 1995 and 2006, the Muruntau gold mining and processing operation was run by the Zarafshan-Newmont Joint Venture, a foreign direct investment by Newmont Mining Corporation of Denver, Colorado.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zarafshon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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