Tashkent
Tashkent is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, with a population of just over 3 million in 2024. It was an ancient city on the Silk Road, the network of trading routes between China and Europe, but what you see now is mostly modern - it was wrecked by an earthquake in 1966 and rebuilt in Soviet style, with humdrum medium-raise lining interminable boulevards. Wikivoyage
Population 2,956,384 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Uzbekistan
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide- Tashkent Polytechnic Museum Museum · 510 m
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State Museum of History of Uzbekistan Museum · 780 m -
State Museum of Timurid History Museum · 200 m - The Tashkent chiming clock Attraction · 270 m
- Kokand Gate City gate · 460 m
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Дизельная Monument · 730 m -
Palace Romanov Attraction · 740 m - Fine Arts Gallery of Uzbekistan Museum · 740 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Somewhere to run
Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.
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