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Qoʻrgʻontepa District Qoʻrgʻontepa District is a district of Andijan Region, Uzbekistan. The capital of the district is the city Qoʻrgʻontepa. The district was established on September 29, 1926. It has an area of and it had 222,100 inhabitants in 2022. Administra ...

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of Andijan Region in eastern

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

, about 50 km from the district capital of

Andijan Andijan (sometimes spelled Andijon or Andizhan in English) ( uz, Andijon / Андижон / ئەندىجان; fa, اندیجان, ''Andijân/Andīǰān''; russian: Андижан, ''Andižan'') is a city in Uzbekistan. It is the administrative, ...

. The town's name means "black water" in Uzbek (''qora'' - black, ''suv'' - water). It lies in the politically volatile and religiously conservative Fergana Valley, along the border with

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...

. Its population is 33,000 (2016). It is essentially one town with

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in Kyrgyzstan, but is separated from the latter by a

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-era border which today is tightly controlled by Uzbekistan. Qorasuv was the second town in Uzbekistan to be sealed off during the Andijan massacre in spring 2005, when some 6,000 people fled across the border. A border town, it is an important market town, especially for cottonseed oil trading.

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