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is divided into 12

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s (''viloyatlar'', singular viloyat, ''viloyati'' in compound, e.g. Toshkent ''viloyati''), 1

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(''respublika'', ''respublikasi'' in compound, e.g. Qaraqalpaqstan Avtonom ''Respublikasi''), and 1

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(''shahar'' or ''shahri'' in compounds, e.g. Toshkent ''shahri'').

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Names are given below in the

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 ...

, although numerous variations of the transliterations of each name exist. The regions in turn are divided into 175 districts (''tumanlar'', singular ''tuman'').

Enclaves and exclaves

There are four Uzbek

exclaves An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. An enclave can be an independent territory or part of a larger one. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is s ...

, all of them surrounded by Kyrgyz territory in the

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region where Kyrgyzstan,

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

and Uzbekistan meet. Two of them are the towns of Sokh, area of 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) and Shohimardon, area of with a population of 5,100 in 1993 (91% are Uzbeks and the remainder Kyrgyz). The other two are the tiny territories of (or Qalacha), roughly long and wide, and Jani-Ayil (or Dzhangail), a dot of land barely across. Chon-Qora is on the Sokh river, between the Uzbek border and the Sokh exclave. Uzbekistan has a Tajikistan enclave, the village of Sarvan, which includes a narrow, long strip of land about long and wide, along the road from Angren to Kokand. The Kyrgyz village of Barak (population 627) lies 15 km north of Osh. In August 1999, the area around Barak was occupied by Uzbekistan, cutting it off from Kyrgyz territory. Uzbek forces dug up and blockaded the road to Ak-Tash while also allegedly seizing large areas of Kyrgyz land that had been loaned in the Soviet era but never returned. They entrenched themselves within much of Kyrgyz border territory and refused to leave. Barak became a ''de facto'' enclave only 1.5 km from the shifted main border.
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In August 2018 Kyrgyz and Uzbek authorities agreed to a land swap that would eliminate the exclave. The exchange process may take up to two years.

References

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Enclaves and exclaves

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