Yangiyer

Yangiyer ( Янгиер ) ( usbek. )

Yangiyer (Cyrillic Янгиер; Russian Янгиер Jangijer ) is a city in the Uzbek province Sirdaryo, located about 25 km south of the provincial capital Guliston to 315 m above sea level in the steppe Mirzachol. Yangiyer is a county-level city. According to the population census in 1989 Yangiyer then had 28,600 inhabitants, a calculation for 2012 are that there is the population of 37 984.

Yangiyer was founded in 1957 as part of a development plan for the steppe areas. In addition to several industrial plants and a railway station Yangiyer also houses a museum that documents the development of Mirzachol - steppe.

With an annual average temperature of 15.1 ° C, the annual precipitation amounts to 257 mm in Yangiyer.