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The Tashkent
Agglomeration
The Tashkent Agglomeration is kind
of megapolis. It is the great pool of city and country
settlements, which are connected to each other by cultural, economical,
and dwelling links.
The Tashkent Agglomeration is the biggest
in the Central Asia region by its size of population, territory and
economical meaning and is the pool of city settlements of
monocentric type. The Tashkent Agglomeration
consists of Tas hkent
City and adjoining territory with 60-70 km radius from the center of
Tashkent, which includes the main core - Tashkent and outward zone
of its satellites. The Tashkent agglomeration reminds the chain of
settlements along composed transport-planning axises, which perform
as axises (zones) of primary development. The predominating part of
the city settlement - satellites is situated in the limits of main
axis fran, North-East to South-West. In the structure of Tashkent
agglomeration, except Tashkent, there are 6 other towns (Gazalkent,
Keles, Toytepa, Chinaz, Chirchik, Yangiyul), 15 urban settlements,
637 rural settlements with total population of more than 2963
thousands people, 2192 thousands people are from urban and 771,5
thousands people are from rural places. The territory of the
Tashkent agglomeration is about 6,4 thousands square kilometers (in
the limits of populated part). All
urban settlements are united by production, labor and cultural
links with Tashkent. The Tashkent agglomeration has very high industrial
potential. It
produces more than 30% of the total volume
of
Map-scheme of Tashkent
agglomeration
Gross industrial production. The first place
belongs
to Chirchik and Yangiyul towns, which give
64% of
industrial production in agglomeration (without
Tashkent). The structure of the industry is defermined by the main
city to a considerable extent. In Tashkent City are produced about
73% of total volume of brass production.
Source of map-scheme: Tashkent, 1984,
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