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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
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What to see
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Khast Imam complex
Holds one of the oldest surviving Qur'an manuscripts in the world.
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Chorsu Bazaar
A blue-domed market hall over a trading site far older than the building.
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The Tashkent Metro
Central Asia's first metro, with stations designed as underground halls.