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THE TWELVE REGIONS OF UZBEKISTAN
Uzbekistan is divided into 12 regions (viloyatlar, singular – viloyat, viloyati in compound, e.g. Toshkent viloyati), 1 autonomous republic (respublika, respublikasi in compound, e.g. Qaraqalpaqstan Avtonom Respublikasi), and 1 independent city (shahar or shahri in compounds, e.g. Toshkent shahri). Names are given below in the Uzbek language, although numerous variations of the transliterations of each name exist. The regions in turn are divided into 160 districts (tumanlar, singular tuman).

Division	Capital city	Area (km²)	Population (2015)[1]
Andijan Region	Andijan	4,200	2,857,300
Bukhara Region	Bukhara	39,400	1,785,400
Fergana Region	Fergana	6,800	3,444,900
Jizzakh Region	Jizzakh	20,500	1,250,100
Xorazm Region	Urgench	6,300	1,715,600
Namangan Region	Namangan	7,900	2,554,200
Navoiy Region	Navoiy	110,800	913,200
Qashqadaryo Region	Qarshi	28,400	2,958,900
Samarqand Region	Samarkand	16,400	3,514,800
Sirdaryo Region	Guliston	5,100	777,100
Surxondaryo Region	Termez	20,800	2,358,300
Tashkent Region	Tashkent	15,300	2,758,300
Karakalpakstan	Nukus	160,000	1,763,100
Tashkent	—	335	2,352,300

Enclaves and exclaves[edit]

There are four Uzbek exclaves, all of them surrounded by Kyrgyz territory in the Fergana Valley region where Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan meet. Two of them are the towns of Sokh, area of 325 km2 (125 sq mi) with a population of 42,800 in 1993 (with some estimates as high as 70,000, of which 99% are Tajiks and the remainder Uzbeks[2]) and Shohimardon, area of 90 km2 (35 sq mi) with a population of 5,100 in 1993 (91% are Uzbeks and the remainder Kyrgyz). The other two are the tiny territories of Chon-Kara (or Qalacha), roughly 3 km (1.9 mi) long and 1 km (0.62 mi) wide, and Jani-Ayil (or Dzhangail), a dot of land barely 3 km (1.9 mi) across. Chon-Kara is on the Sokh river, between the Uzbek border and the Sokh exclave.

The twelve regions of Uzbekistan
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   About Uzbekistan
   
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   History of Uzbekistan
   
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   Regions of Uzbekistan
   

Updates: 
ISO 3166-2 Newsletter number I-4, dated 2002-12-10, adds one division, Toshkent city. Its ISO code is UZ-TK. If this new division is valid, it was probably created by splitting it from Toshkent region.
ISO 3166-2 Newsletter number I-2 was published on 2002-05-21. It says that Uzbekistan officially adopted a Roman alphabet in 1995-05. The only change to the standard is the use of the new alphabet. Wherever the former transliteration of a division name had 'gh', it's been replaced by 'g`' (using a left apostrophe) in the new name; 'kh' has been consistently replaced by 'x'. For example, Khorazm is now spelled Xorazm. ISO has also changed the code for Xorazm from UZ-KH to UZ-XO.
Change Notice 7 to FIPS PUB 10-4 is dated 2002-01-10. The codes for two regions in Uzbekistan have changed. Jizzakh will be UZ15 henceforth, and Sirdaryo will be UZ16. Usually a change of this sort means that there has been a transfer of territory from one division to the other. Jizzakh and Sirdaryo are neighbors, so such a transfer is possible, but I have no information about the nature or extent of it.
In 1900, the area which is now Uzbekistan was partly contained in Imperial Russia, the remainder being under Russian protection. The Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanate of Khiva had been protectorates since 1868 and 1873 respectively. The part that was in Russia proper was contained in the general government of Turkestan. Turkestan was divided into oblasts (regions), and the part that became Uzbekistan lay mainly in the Syr-Daria, Ferghana, and Transcaspian oblasts. In the years following the Russian Revolution, all of Turkestan joined the Soviet Union. Uzbekistan appeared on the map in 1924. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it became an independent country.