The State Statistics Committee has announced regions with the most population.
According to the Committee, as of April 1, 2022, Samarkand region leads in the number of permanent residents of the republic – 4.04 million people.
The next places are taken by Fergana region with a population of 3.91 million people and Kashkadarya region with a population of 3.42 million people.
The stats of the permanent population in the remaining provinces are as follows:
- Andijan region - 3.26 million people;
- Tashkent region - 2.95 million people;
- Namangan region - 2.94 million people;
- Tashkent city - 2.87 million people;
- Surkhandarya region - 2.75 million people;
- Bukhara region - 1.98 million people;
- Karakalpakstan R. - 1.95 million people;
- Khorezm region - 1.93 million people;
- Jizzakh region - 1.45 million people;
- Navoi region - 1.03 million people;
- Syrdarya region - 883.1 thousand people.
Earlier it was reported that the permanent population of Uzbekistan is growing by an average of 1.8 thousand people every day.