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Region
Tashkent City
The capital and the largest city in Central Asia. Levelled by an earthquake in 1966 and rebuilt as a modernist experiment, which is why it looks nothing like the country's older cities.
- Administrative centre
- Tashkent
- Area
- 335 km²
Non at Chorsu
What to see
The Tashkent Metro
Central Asia's first metro, with stations designed as underground halls.
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Kukeldash Madrasah
A 16th-century madrasah on the rise above Chorsu, still used for teaching.
Directions
Amir Temur Square
The heart of the capital: Timur on horseback, and his museum under a blue dome.
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Centre of Islamic Civilization
A vast new museum and research centre beside the Hazrati Imam complex.
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