Qorakoʻl also spelled as Karakul (, قره کۉل; ) is a city in the

Bukhara Region Bukhara Region is a region of Uzbekistan located in the southwest of the country. The Kyzyl Kum desert takes up a large portion of its territory. It borders Turkmenistan, Navoiy Region, Qashqadaryo Region, a small part of the Xorazm Region, a ...

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. It is the capital of Qorakoʻl District (Qorakoʻl tumani). Its population is 22,300 (2016).

Name

"Qorakoʻl" means "black lake" (< ''qora'' 'black' + ''ko'l'' 'lake') in

Uzbek language Uzbek is a Karluk Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks. It is the official and national language of Uzbekistan and formally succeeded Chagatai, an earlier Karluk language endonymically called or , as the literary language of Uzbekistan in the 19 ...

. The Turkic name of Lake Karakul in this area has been known since the beginning of the 8th century.Найимов С. Н. Ойконимы Бухарской области. Автореф. кандидатской диссертации. Т., 1984. с. 8

History

The status of the city was granted in 1980. Previously it had been an

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References

Populated places in Bukhara Region Cities in Uzbekistan {{Uzbekistan-geo-stub