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Region
Jizzakh
A region of juniper highlands and open steppe between the Kyzylkum and the Turkestan range, with one of the country's oldest protected forests at Zaamin.
- Administrative centre
- Jizzakh
- Area
- 21,210 km²
The Registan at golden hour
What to see
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Zaamin National Park
High juniper forest and alpine meadow, protected since the 1920s.
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Sangzor Valley
A narrow pass long used by caravans crossing between Samarkand and Tashkent.
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Nuratau-Kyzylkum Biosphere Reserve
Home to the endangered Severtsov's argali wild sheep.