Yashnobod
District of Tashkent
Location of Yashnobod
Country Uzbekistan
MunicipalityTashkent
Established1981
Area
[1]
 • Total33.7 km2 (13.0 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[2]
 • Total258,800
 • Density7,700/km2 (20,000/sq mi)

Yashnobod (Uzbek: Yashnobod tumani, Russian: Яшнободский район, romanized: Yashnobodsky rayon) is one of the twelve districts (tuman) of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.[3]

Overview

The district was established in 1968 with name Khamza district.[4] It is an eastern district,[5] and borders with the tuman of Mirzo Ulugbek, Yunusabad, Mirobod and Bektemir, as well as with Tashkent Province.

Transportation

Out of 365 streets, the main ones are Istiklol Street, Taraqqiyot Street, Fargona Yuli Street, Tashkent Ring Road, Zharkurgan Street, Yashnobod and Akhangaran Highway.

The district has the Uzbekistan Line metro stations Mashinasozlar and Do‘stlik, which is the largest freight railway station in Tashkent (Product code 722400).

In the end of August 2014, the district was renamed to Yashnobod.

Education

Yashnobod district hosts a number of institutions of higher education, including the first entrepreneurial university in Uzbekistan - TEAM University, and Tashkent State Stomatological Institute.

References

  1. ↑ "Districts". City of Tashkent. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Urban and rural population by district" (PDF) (in Uzbek). Tashkent City department of statistics.
  3. ↑ "Classification system of territorial units of the Republic of Uzbekistan" (in Uzbek and Russian). The State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on statistics. July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Khamza district has been renamed" (in Russian). Podrobno.uz. 2014-08-29.
  5. ↑ Sadikov, A C; Akramob Z. M., Bazarbaev, A., Mirzlaev T.M., Adilov S. R., Baimukhamedov X. N., et al. (in Russian) (72x112). Geographical Atlas of Tashkent (Ташкент Географический Атлас) (2 ed.). Moscow. p. 64.

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