City
Tashkent
Capital of Uzbekistan
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Hazrati Imam; Chorsu Bazaar; Kukeldash Madrasah; Amir Timur Square; Ankhor Canal; Soviet-planned; Amir Timur Square; Silk Road Islamic
- Viewpoint
- Favor an elevated viewpoint overlooking the city from near the Ankhor Canal or Amir Timur Square, looking northeast toward the historic domes of Hazrati Imam, showing the lush plane tree canopies in the foreground/middle-ground and the snow-capped Tian Shan peaks dominating the background.
- Palette
- Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick chinar (plane tree) canopies, canal-side willows, and public parklands.
- Guarded against
- Not Samarkand, Bukhara, or generic Soviet architecture
Population1,978,028Wikidata: 2,424,100
Coordinates41.26°N, 69.22°E
Elevation455 m
Area335 km²
Time zoneAsia/TashkentUTC+5
Solar noon12:23clock runs 0.4 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Tashkent and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Hanga Roa, Chile — 1,574 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Shymkent | KZ | 121 km |
| Dushanbe | TJ | 305 km |
| Bishkek | KG | 478 km |
| Almaty | KZ | 670 km |
| Kabul | AF | 748 km |
| Peshawar | PK | 832 km |
| Islamabad | PK | 903 km |
| Rawalpindi | PK | 916 km |
Twinned cities
- Berlin DE
- Istanbul TR
- Karachi PK
- Kyiv UA
- Nagoya JP
- Saint Petersburg RU
- Shanghai CN
- Skopje MK
- Tripoli LY
- Tunis TN
10 of 18 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →
This city sits on
- Uzbekistancountry
- 41Nparallel
- UTC+5offset