Sharof Rashidov District (until 2016: ''Jizzakh District'') is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

Jizzakh Region Jizzakh Region is one of the regions of Uzbekistan. It is located in the center/east of the country. It borders Tajikistan to the south and south-east, Samarqand Region to the west, Navoiy Region to the north-west, Kazakhstan to the north, and ...

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. The capital lies at the town

Uchtepa Uchtepa is one of 12 districts (''tuman'') of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. Overview The district, located in the western suburb, was established in 1981 with the name of Akmal-Ikramov.Sadikov, A C; Akramob Z. M., Bazarbaev, A., Mirzlaev T. ...

. It has an area of and its population is 223,100 (2020 est.).Permanent population of Jizzakh region as of July 1, 2020
Republic of Uzbekistan Open Data Portal It is named after

Sharof Rashidov Sharof Rashidovich Rashidov (Uzbek Cyrillic: Шароф Рашидович Рашидов, ; ; – 31 October 1983) was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from 1959 until his death in 1983. During h ...

, a leader of

Soviet Uzbekistan The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (, ), also known as Soviet Uzbekistan, the Uzbek SSR, UzSSR, or simply Uzbekistan and rarely Uzbekia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union. It was governed by the Uzbek branch of the Soviet Communist P ...

. The district consists of 7

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

s (Uchtepa, Gandumtosh, Qorayantoq, Qangʻli, Toqchiliq, Mulkanlik, Jizzaxlik) and 12 rural communities.

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