To‘rtko‘l

Turtkul

Karak. Tortkul ( Төрткүл )

Tortkol (Cyrillic Uzbek - Тўрткўл; karakalpakisch Tortkul or Төрткүл; Russian Турткуль, also Turtkul; until 1920 Petroalexandrowsk ) is a county-level city and capital of an eponymous district in Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan ). Tortkol is located at 105 meters altitude and has 52 424 inhabitants (calculated for 2009), the 1991 census was 36,300 inhabitants.

Tortkol is the southernmost city of the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan and was until 1932 their capital. Since the city is located in the best way Amu Darya and protection against floods which engulfed many resources that Karakalpakistans capital was finally moved to the more central Nukus, which had been re-established.

The average temperatures range from 28 ° C in July and -5.1 ° C in January.

In Tortkol an airport is a 1503 meter long runway and the ICAO code UTNT (41 ° 34 '30 " N, 60 ° 58 ' 1" O41.57560.967 ).

Sports

Sultan Rakhmanov, Soviet Olympic and world weightlifting champion, was born in Tortkol. 1983, the football club Tselinnik Turtkul was Uzbek champions.