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Zarafshon
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Also known as Zarafshan

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

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Key facts

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Zarafshon
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City
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Zarafshan
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Uzbekistan
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bottom
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Uzbekistan
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Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
25px Uzbekistan
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Region
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Navoiy Region
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20
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2021
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85100
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auto
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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
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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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