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Site Information
- UNESCO ID
- 885
- Category
- Cultural
- Country
- Uzbekistan
- Inscribed
- 2000
- Coordinates
- 39.0500, 66.8333
- Area
- 2.4 km²
- Wikidata
- View on Wikidata
Selection Criteria
(iii)
(iv)
Criteria: (iii), (iv)
Description
Shahrisabz is a district-level city in Qashqadaryo Region in southern Uzbekistan. The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) selected Shakhrisabz as its tourism capital for 2024. It is located approximately 80 km south of Samarkand at an elevation of 622 m. Its permanent population was 152,700 as of 1 January 2026. Historically known as Kesh or Kish, Shahrisabz was once a major city of Central Asia and was an important urban center of Sogdiana, a province of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. It is primarily known today as the birthplace of 14th-century Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur.
