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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Zarafshon is a city in Uzbekistan, located in the Navoiy Region and Bukhara Region. The city was established in 1965 and sits at an elevation of 400 meters above sea level. It has a population of 54,300 and operates within the UTC+05:00 time zone. The postal code for the area is 706801.
The city is distinct from Zeravshan. Its native label is Zarafshon, also written as Зарафшон.
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Place details
- Locality
- Zarafshon shahri
- Region
- Navoiy Viloyati
- Country
- Oʻzbekiston
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
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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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Uzbekistan
- Located in
- Bukhara Region
- Population
- 34864
- Elevation
- 400
- Time zone
- UTC+05:00
- Image
- Зарафшан 13 мая 2020 (Узбекистан, Навои).jpg
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- postal code
- 706801
- Commons category
- Zarafshon
- native label
- Zarafshon, Зарафшон
- topic's main category
- Category:Zarafshon
- inception
- 1965-00-00
- different from
- Zeravshan
- P12749
- May 2
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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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