Local time
Sun, 6:09 AM GMT+5Asia/TashkentCityCapital
Tashkent
41.31° N, 69.29° E
- Population
- 2,184,000
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 1 of 27
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 27 cities of Uzbekistan in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Uzbekistan, so this is not a national ranking.
- Time zone
- Asia/Tashkent
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Practical bearings for Tashkent, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Tashkent have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
The current name was first used in the 11th century and comes from the Sogdian (Turkic) words "tash" (stone) and "kent" (town).
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person