Karakalpakstan

sights.uz lists 24 historic and notable places in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. Among them are 14 monuments, 8 eco-tourism sites and 2 museums.

Nukus Museum of Art

The Nukus Museum of Art, or more properly the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitsky (Karakalpak: I.V.Savitskiy atındaǵı Qaraqalpaqstan…

Toprak-kala

Toprak-Kala, in modern Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was an ancient palace city and the capital of in Chorasmia in the 2nd/3rd century CE, where wall paintings, coins and archives…

Ayaz-Kala

Ayaz-Kala is an archaeological site in Ellikqala District, Karakalpakstan, in northern Uzbekistan, built between the 4th century BCE and the 7th century CE. Situated on a hilltop…

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…

Mizdahkan

Mizdahkan is an archeological site and necropolis on the west of the city of Xojeli. It lies on hills within the Xojeli District, Karakalpakstan. It was founded in the 4th…

Kyzyl-Kala

Kyzyl-Kala, also Qyzyl Qala ("Red fortress"), in modern Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was an ancient fortress in Chorasmia built in the 1st-4th century CE. The small fortress of…

Akchakhan-Kala

Akchakhan-Kala, or Akcha-khan Kala, also named after the locality Kazakly-Yatkan/ Kazakl'i-Yatkan, in modern Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was an ancient fortress in Chorasmia…

Sulton Uvays Bobo Complex

The Sulton Uvays Bobo Complex is a historical monument built between the 17th and 19th centuries in Beruniy District, in the Uzbek autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan.

Burgut qalʼa

Burgut qalʼa — an ancient ruined city located in the Qirqqiz massif of the Toʻrtkoʻl district of Karakalpakstan, situated in the Burgut qalʼa depression and serving as its…

desert castles of ancient Khorezm

The Desert castles of ancient Khorezm, traditionally known as Elliq Qala (Uzbek and Karakalpak fifty fortresses), are a collection of desert fortresses in Karakalpakstan in…

Museum of History and Culture of the Republic of Karakalpakstan

The Karakalpakstan Regional Museum of Archaeology (currently named the Museum of History and Culture of the Republic of Karakalpakstan) is not only one of the oldest scientific…

Bileuli karvonsaroyi

Beleuli caravanserai – a 14th‑century architectural monument, according to other sources built in the 11th century.

Badai Tugai Nature Reserve

The Badai Tugai Nature Reserve is located at the banks of the Amu Darya river in Uzbekistan. It was founded in 1971 on 6400 ha and is the only Nature Reserve in the republic of…

Guldursun-Kala

Guldursun-Kala, also Guldursun Qala, in modern Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was an ancient fortress in Chorasmia built in the 12th century CE. It is one of the largest fortresses…

Saigachiy Complex (landscape) reserve

The prestigious state order guard (zaznigi) - established in 1991 in order to protect the park and the areas where it is growing . It is located in the Kangaroo district of the…

Kechirmas bobo maqbarasi

Kechirmas bobo mausoleum (or Kechirmas ota mausoleum) — a historical monument in the Ellikqalʼa district of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. The mausoleum belongs to the 12th–14th…

Imom eshon Muhammad jome masjidi

The Imam eshan Muhammad jome mosque is a jome mosque located in Nukus, the center of Karakchistan.On the first floor of the mosque is the representative office of the Muslims of…

Sudochye nature reserve

Sudochye State Ornithological Reserve was established in 1991 to protect the biological complex Amudare Delta, the nesting and nesting areas of migratory birds. It is located in…

Xalifa Rajab maqbarasi

Xalifa Rajab mausoleum – one of the XII‑century tomb ruins in Mizdaxqon (Uzbekistan).

South Ustyurt National Nature Park

South Ustyurt National Nature Park was established by decree on 11 November 2020 in the Qongirot district of Karakalpakstan, covering about 1.45 million hectares across the…

Aralkum National Nature Park

Aralkum National Nature Park was established by presidential decree in 2022 in the Muynak district of Karakalpakstan, on part of the dried former seabed of the Aral Sea, with the…

Barsakelmas State Wildlife Sanctuary

This state reserve, created in 2022 on the recommendation of the Academies of Sciences of Uzbekistan and Karakalpakstan, protects a roughly 280,000-hectare stretch of the Ustyurt…

Sultan Ways baba mosque

The Sultan Uvays-Baba complex, in the Beruni district of Karakalpakstan, is one of the most venerated shrine sites in the lower Amu Darya valley. It commemorates Uwais al-Qarani,…

Akpetki nature reserve

Akpetki forms one of two sections of the Sudochie-Akpetki State Nature Reserve, a protected area spanning the Muynak, Kungirat, and Takhtakupyr districts of Karakalpakstan near…