Kokand (uzb)

Kokand

Kokand ranks 3,883rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Makassar, Sollentuna Municipality, and Roanne. Memorable people born in Kokand include Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Shuhrat Abbosov, and Furqat. Memorable people who died in Kokand include Nodira. Kokand has been the birth place of many writers, and actors and the death place of many writers. Kokand is located in Uzbekistan.

Kokand is a city in Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southwestern edge of the Fergana Valley. Administratively, Kokand is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Muqimiy. The population of Kokand as of 2022 was approximately 259,700. The city lies 228 km (142 mi) southeast of Tashkent, 115 km (71 mi) west of Andijan, and 88 km (55 mi) west of Fergana. It is nicknamed "City of Winds". In 1877 when the first ethnographic works were done under the new imperial Russian administration, Khoqand/Kokand was reported and visually depicted on their maps as Tajik inhabited oasis (C.E de Ujfalvy. The city and the entire eastern 3/4 of the Fergana Valley were included in Uzbekistan in the 1920s and Stalin's dictates of political borders. Read more on Wikipedia