Tashkent Travel Guide

Tashkent (Uzbek: Toshkent or Тошкент; Russian: Ташкент) is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan, with a population of just over 3 million in 2024. It was an ancient city on the Silk Road, the network of trading routes between China and Europe, but what you see now is mostly modern - it was wrecked by an earthquake in 1966 and rebuilt in Soviet style, with humdrum medium-raise lining interminable boulevards. It's the national transport hub and many visitors are just passing through on the way to Samarkand and Bukhara, but there's plenty of interest here to reward staying a few days.

41.263869.26641Tashkent International Airport((TASIATA)) (8 km south of city centre).Tashkent International Airport is well connected to Europe, Russia, Middle East and Asia with Uzbekistan Airways and other major airlines. The international terminal T2 is north side of the runway, as marked on the map; T1 adjacent is simply an arrivals hall. Domestic flights are from Bukhara, Nukus, Urgench and Termez, using Terminal 3 which is 4 km south across the runway. So to transfer from an international

Tashkent is generally safe. Beware traffic, safeguard valuables, don't get mixed up in local politics (eg demos) and suspect a scam if a suave local approaches you.