Qashqadaryo Province

The Qashqadaryo Province ( Uzbek: Qashqadaryo Viloyati or in Cyrillic Қашқадарё вилояти, German also: Province Kashkadaria ) is one of the twelve provinces of Uzbekistan. It is located in the southern part of the country in the basin of the river Qashqadaryo at the foothills of the Pamir Alay Mountains in the. The province is bordered by the provinces of Uzbekistan Bukhara, Navoi, Samarkand and Surxondaryo, as well as the Turkmenistan region Lebap and the Sughd province of Tajikistan.

The area of ​​the province is 28,400 km ², its population (2005) 2.029 million people. Approximately 73 percent of the population live in rural areas; the population density amounts to 71 inhabitants per square kilometer. The ISO 3166-2 code of the province is the IP - QA, Capital Region has Qarshi about 226,000 inhabitants.

History

In 1925 existed in the Uzbek SSR, a region called Qashqadaryo, but this was in 1926/27 abolished and a district of the same name founded (up to 1930). On January 20, 1943, the province was finally established, but abolished in January 1960 and restored in July 1964.

Subdivision

Administratively divided the province Qashqadaryo in 14 districts and the two provincial municipalities directly Qarshi and Shahrisabz. Shahrisabz, the former Kish and birthplace Amir Temur, is the main tourist attraction of the region.

Climate and economy

Qashqadaryo is located in a zone of continental and subtropical climate, natural resources, there are petroleum and natural gas. Other important industries include wool processing, textiles, light industry and the food industry and the manufacture of building materials. In agriculture, cotton plantations, field crops and livestock Furch prevail. The irrigation of the fields guarantees the Talimarjon reservoir.

Andijon | Bukhara | Fargona | Jizzax | Karakalpakstan (Republic of ) | Namangan | Navoi | Qashqadaryo | Samarkand | Sirdaryo | Surxondaryo | Tashkent ( capital ) | Tashkent ( province ) | Xorazm

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