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We fly towards the Republic of Uzbekistan to visit her capital city, Tashkent.
By Mark on September 14, 2009
Tashkent is the main capital city of the former Russian, the Republic of Uzbekistan it is within the Tashkent Province. In 2008, the population was regisitered at 2.18 million people. But supposeingly there happens to be some unofficial data, which say that the population of the city is more than 3 million.
The city is situated within a well-watered plain to the west of the last Altai mountains on the road between Shymkent and Samarkand.
Tashkent sits at the main two bodies of water at the Chirchik river and several of its tributaries leading to the mainstream river.and is built on deep a soil or sediments deposited by a river or other running water. You will find that alot of tremors and earthquakes appear in this city, because of Tashkent being on lively tectonic area. Back in 1966 an earthquake reached a measurement of 7.5 on the Richter scale. The local time in Tashkent is UTC/GMT +5 hours.
This is a satellite image picture taken from Google Earth of Uzbekistan and Asia.
Tashkent has a kind of continental climate with long, hot and dry summers from June to September and short but cold winters from December to February. But in the middle months of July and August, it can really get quite hot there. It doesd have an average rainfall, but it is a very dry country.
This is a panoramio picture taken of the Earthquake 1966 Monument in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
This is a panoramio picture taken of water fountain in the middle of the Chirchik river from a restaurant.
This is a panoramio picture taken of Russian Orthodox Church in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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