Gʻuzor

Gʻuzor, written Гузар in Russian, is a city in Qashqadaryo Region of Uzbekistan, and the administrative center of Gʻuzor District. Its population is given as 24,500 in 2016. It was one of the most important cities of the Khanate of Bukhara. In 1942, during the Second World War, it was the organizational center of the Polish Anders' Army, and many Polish soldiers and civilians died there of epidemic and lie in a Polish military cemetery. It was assigned city status in 1977, having been a village before that, and it stands southeast of Karshi on the river Gʻuzordaryo, a tributary of the Kashkadarya. A railway junction there serves lines to Karshi, Kitob and Kumkurgan, and the football club Shurtan is based in the town. The Qashqadaryo Region is one of the regions into which Uzbekistan is divided. Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, so Gʻuzor has no coast.