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Region
Navoiy
The second-largest region, and mostly Kyzylkum desert. It holds the country's main gold mining operation, thousands of Bronze Age rock carvings, and a lake that was created by accident.
- Administrative centre
- Navoiy
- Area
- 110,800 km²
Yurts in the Kyzylkum
What to see
Sarmishsay petroglyphs
Thousands of rock carvings in a gorge, some more than four thousand years old.
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Nurata and the Chashma spring
A spring-fed pool of sacred fish beneath the ruins of an Alexandrian fort.
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Rabat-i Malik
The portal of an 11th-century royal caravanserai on the Samarkand–Bukhara road, with its domed cistern.
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Mir Said Bahrom Mausoleum
A small 11th-century tomb in Karmana, among the oldest brick mausoleums in Central Asia.
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Qosim Shayx Complex
A 16th-century khanaqah in Karmana, built around the tomb of the Sufi Qosim Shayx.
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