Samarkand
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of the Silk Road ? Chances are, you pictured beautiful ornate Islamic architecture with turquoise domes and soaring tiled minarets.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: City with 573,000 residents
- Description: city in Uzbekistan
- Postal code: 140100
Notable Places in the Area
Registan
Photo: Bobyrr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Registan was the heart of the ancient city of Samarkand of the Timurid Empire, now in Uzbekistan.
Gur-e Amir (Amir Temur Mausoleum)
Photo: Xusenru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gūr-i Amīr or Guri Amir is a mausoleum of the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Shakhi Zinda entrance
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Shah-i-Zinda is a necropolis in the north-eastern part of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Samarkand
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Samarqand Region, Samarkand through Bukhara, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.655° or 39° 39' 18" northLongitude
66.9757° or 66° 58' 33" eastPopulation
573,000Elevation
719 metres (2,359 feet)IATA airport code
SKDUnited Nations Location Code
UZ SKDOpen Location Code
8JF8MX4G+27OpenStreetMap ID
node 245542318OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1216265Wikidata ID
Q5753Samarkand Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Samarkand
- Afar: Samarqand
- Afrikaans: Samarkand
- Akan: Samarkand
- Albanian: Samerkandi
- Amharic: ሳማርቃንድ
- Arabic: Samarqand
- Arabic: سمرقند
- Aragonese: Sarmagant
- Armenian: Սամարղանդ
- Armenian: Սամարղանտ
- Asturian: Samarcanda
- Avaric: Самаркъанд
- Azerbaijani: Səmərqənd
- Bashkir: Сәмәрҡәнд
- Basque: Samarkanda
- Bavarian: Samarkand
- Belarusian: Самарканд
- Bengali: সমরকন্দ
- Bosnian: Samarkand
- Breton: Samarkand
- Bulgarian: Самарканд
- Catalan: Samarcanda
- Cebuano: Samarqand (kapital sa lalawigan sa Uzbekistan)
- Cebuano: Samarqand
- Central Kurdish: سەمەرقەند
- Chechen: Самарканд
- Chinese: Samarkand
- Chinese: 撒馬爾罕
- Chinese: 撒马尔干
- Chinese: 撒马尔罕
- Chuvash: Самарканд
- Cornish: Samarkand
- Crimean Tatar: Samarqand
- Croatian: Samarkand
- Czech: Samarkand
- Danish: Samarkand
- Dimli (individual language): Semerqand
- Dutch: Samarkand
- Eastern Mari: Самарканд
- Egyptian Arabic: سمرقند
- English: Samarcand
- English: Samarqand
- Esperanto: Samarkando
- Estonian: Samarkand
- Estonian: Samarqand
- Finnish: Samarkand
- French: Samarcande
- Galician: Samarcanda
- Georgian: სამარყანდი
- German: Samarkand
- German: Samarqand
- Greek: Σαμαρκάνδη
- Gujarati: સમરકંદ
- Hebrew: סמרקנד
- Hindi: समरक़न्द
- Hungarian: Szamarkand
- Icelandic: Samarkand
- Ido: Samarkand
- Indonesian: Samarkand
- Irish: Samarkand
- Italian: Samarcanda
- Italian: maracanda
- Japanese: サマルカンド
- Kannada: ಸಮರಖಂಡ
- Kara-Kalpak: Samarqand
- Kazakh: Самарқан
- Kikuyu: Samarkand
- Kirghiz: Самаркан
- Korean: 사마르칸트
- Kurdish: Semerqend
- Latin: Maracanda
- Latvian: Samarkanda
- Lithuanian: Samarkandas
- Luxembourgish: Samarkand
- Macedonian: Самарканд
- Maithili: समरकन्द
- Malay: Samarkand
- Malayalam: സമർഖണ്ഡ്
- Maltese: Samarkand
- Maltese: Samarkanda
- Marathi: समरकंद
- Mazanderani: سمرکنده
- Min Nan Chinese: Samarkand
- Moksha: Самарканд
- Mongolian: Самарканд
- Nepali: समरकन्द – संस्कृतिको चौबाटो
- Norwegian: Samarkand
- Norwegian Bokmål: Samarkand
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Samarkand
- Nyanja: Samarkand
- Occitan (post 1500): Samarcanda
- Ossetian: Самарканд
- Panjabi: ਸਮਰਕੰਦ
- Persian: سمرقند
- Polish: Samarkanda
- Portuguese: Samarcanda
- Pushto: سمرقند
- Romanian: Samarkand
- Russian: Самарканд
- Scots: Samarkand
- Serbian: Самарканд
- Serbo-Croatian: Samarkand
- Silesian: Samarkand
- Sinhala: සමර්කන්ද්
- Slovak: Samarkand
- Slovenian: Samarkand
- Somali: Samarqanda
- South Azerbaijani: سمرقند
- Spanish: Samarcanda
- Spanish: Samarkanda
- Swahili: Samarkand
- Swedish: Samarkand
- Swedish: Samarqand
- Swedish: Самарқанд
- Tagalog: Samarqand
- Tajik: Самарқанд
- Tamil: சமர்கந்து
- Tatar: Сәмәрканд
- Telugu: సమర్కండ్
- Telugu: సమర్ఖండ్
- Thai: ซามาร์กันต์
- Thai: ซามาร์คันด์
- Turkish: Semerkant
- Turkmen: Samarkand
- Uighur: Semerqend
- Uighur: سەمەرقەنت
- Ukrainian: Самарканд
- Upper Sorbian: Samarkand
- Upper Sorbian: Samarqand
- Urdu: سمرقند
- Uzbek: Samarqand
- Venetian: Samarcanda
- Veps: Samarkand
- Vietnamese: Samarkand
- Walloon: Samarcande
- Waray (Philippines): Samarqand
- Welsh: Samarcand
- Western Armenian: Սամարղանտ
- Western Frisian: Samarkand
- Western Panjabi: سمرقند
- Wu Chinese: 撒马尔罕
- Yiddish: סאמארקאנד
- Yue Chinese: 撒馬爾罕
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