Nurafshon

Nurafshon is a district-level city and the administrative centre of Tashkent Region in Uzbekistan, about 25 km south of Tashkent on the highway to Kokand. It covers 30 square kilometres and had 51,400 residents in 2021. Until 2017 it was called Toytepa and had been a city under the Oʻrtachirchiq District since receiving city status in 1973; the Senate of the Oliy Majlis approved the new name on 25 August 2017. The towns Yangihayot and Chigirik are part of the city. Its economy includes cotton processing, mostly through Uzbek and South Korean joint ventures, fluorspar mining, an aluminum ore processing plant and a garment factory. On its western outskirts lies the Ulkantoytepe hillfort, where a rectangular shahriston of 20 hectares and a citadel have been preserved.