Sirdaryo Region

Coordinates: 40°25′N 68°40′E / 40.417°N 68.667°E / 40.417; 68.667
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Sirdaryo Region
Sirdaryo viloyati
UTC+5 (not observed)
ISO 3166 codeUZ-SI
Districts9
Cities5
Townships6
Villages75
Websitesirdaryo.uz
Districts of Sirdaryo Region

Sirdaryo Region (

Starving Steppe taking up a significant part of the region's area. The population is estimated to be 860,900 (2021).[2]

The capital is the city of

.

Demography

The population of the region is distributed along the main highway, which divides the whole region into two parts: the western and the eastern. The population in mainly Uzbek, with Tajik minorities on the border in the south with Tajikistan (mainly Khavast district).

Administration

The Sirdaryo Region consists of 8 districts (listed below) and three district-level cities: Guliston, Shirin and Yangiyer.[3][4]

Key District name District name (uzbek) District capital
1 Oqoltin District Oqoltin tumani Sardoba
2 Boyovut District Boyovut tumani Boyovut
3 Guliston District Guliston tumani Dehqonobod
4 Xovos District Xovos tumani Xovos
5 Mirzaobod District Mirzaobod tumani Navroʻz
6 Sardoba District Sardoba tumani Paxtaobod
7 Sayxunobod District Sayxunobod tumani Sayxun
8 Sirdaryo District Sirdaryo tumani Sirdaryo

There are 5 cities (Guliston, Shirin, Yangiyer, Sirdaryo, Baxt) and 25 urban-type settlements in the Sirdaryo Region.[3][4] In 2004 the Mehnatobod District was abolished and its territory was divided between the Mirzaobod District and the Xovos District.[5]

Climate

The climate is a typically arid continental climate with extreme differences between winter and summer temperatures.

Economy

The economy is based on

grapes
. Industry consists of construction materials, irrigation equipment and raw-cotton processing.

Syrdarya contains one of Uzbekistan's largest

hydroelectric power plants
, which generates one third of the country's electricity.

References

  1. ^ "Passport of the Syrdarya region". Officiel website of Sirdaryo Region. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Urban and rural population by district" (PDF) (in Uzbek). Sirdaryo regional department of statistics.
  3. ^ a b "Oʻzbekiston Respublikasining maʼmuriy-hududiy boʻlinishi" [Administrative-territorial division of the Republic of Uzbekistan] (in Uzbek). The State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on statistics. July 2021. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Classification system of territorial units of the Republic of Uzbekistan" (in Uzbek and Russian). The State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on statistics. July 2020.
  5. ^ "597-II-сон 11.02.2004. О внесении некоторых изменений в административно-территориальное устройство Сырдарьинской области".

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