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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
The Registan at golden hour
What to see
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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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Lake Aydarkul
A large lake formed unintentionally in 1969, now surrounded by yurt camps.