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Discover historical and remarkable places across Uzbekistan

Famous places

The best-known historic monuments of Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and Tashkent

Registan

Registan, officially the Registan Square (Uzbek: Registon maydoni) is a historic public square in the city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It served as the heart of the Timurid Empire…

Gur-e Amir

The Gūr-i Amīr or Guri Amir (Uzbek: Amir Temur maqbarasi, Goʻri Amir, Persian: گورِ امیر) is a mausoleum of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur (also known as Tamerlane) in…

Bibi-Khanym Mosque

The Bibi-Khanym Mosque (Uzbek: Bibixonim masjidi; Persian: مسجد بی بی خانم; also variously spelled as Khanum, Khanom, Hanum, Hanim) is one of the most important monuments of…

Kalyan Minaret

The Kalyan Minaret (Uzbek: Минораи Калон, Minorai Kalon, Persian/Tajik: Minâra-i Kalân, Kalon Minor, Kalon Minaret) is a minaret of the Po-i-Kalyan mosque complex in Bukhara,…

Samanid Mausoleum

The Samanid Mausoleum is a mausoleum located in the northwestern part of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, just outside its historic center. It was built in the 10th century CE as the resting…

Shah-i-Zinda

Shah-i-Zinda (from Classical Persian: شاهِ زنده, romanized: Šāh-i Zinda, lit. 'the Living King'; Uzbek: Shohizinda) is a necropolis in the north-eastern part of Samarkand,…

Eco-tourism places

Nature reserves, national parks and other natural landmarks

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Aydar Lake

The Aydar Lake (Uzbek: Aydar Ko‘li, Айдар кўли; Haydar ko‘li, Ҳайдар кўли; alternate spellings: Lake Aydarkul, Lake Aidarkul) is part of the man-made Aydar-Arnasay system of…

Teshik-Tash

Teshik-Tash 1 is a Neanderthal skeleton discovered in 1938 in Teshik-Tash Cave, in the Bajsuntau mountain range, Uzbek SSR (Uzbekistan), Central Asia.

Zaamin National Park

Zaamin National Park (Uzbek: Zomin togʻ-oʻrmon davlat qoʻriqxonasi) in Jizzakh Region is the oldest nature reserve in Uzbekistan. It was created in 1926 as the Guralash Nature…

Charvak Lake

Lake Charvak (Uzbek: Chorvoq; from چهارباغ Char bagh, "four gardens" in Persian) is a water reservoir in Boʻstonliq District in the northern part of Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan,…

Chatkal biosphere reserve

Chatkal State Nature Reserve is a reserve in the Tashkent Province of Uzbekistan comprising about 570 square kilometres of mountain steppes, mountain forests, alpine meadows,…

Sudochye lake

Sudochye Lake – a lake in the Moʻynoq district of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. In the southwest of the Aral Sea. Its western shore is attached to the Eastern fringe of…