Shoʻrchi

Shoʻrchi is a city in the Surxondaryo Region of southern Uzbekistan and the administrative centre of Shoʻrchi District. Its population was about 16,560 in 1989 and was put at 25,000 in 2016. Medieval writers, including Kudain and Ibn Khurdadbeh, mention a village called Barangi in the Shorchi area, and mosques are recorded there in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The modern city lives from light and food industry and building materials, with a cotton company, a grain products company, a large grain elevator, mills, a felting factory, a shoe producer, bread bakeries and a textile mill. It has a large bazaar, two hotels and a number of shops and service firms. Its schools include general education schools, music schools, boarding schools and nine vocational colleges teaching fields such as agriculture, medicine, light industry and economics, and the district hospital, polyclinic and libraries serve the population.