Uchqoʻrgʻon

Uchqoʻrgʻon is a city and the seat of Uchqoʻrgʻon District in the Namangan Region of eastern Uzbekistan. Its name comes from Uzbek and means three kurgan, or three fortifications, a reference to the earthen forts that give many Central Asian places their names. It was granted city status in 1969. The population was 23,772 in 1989 and was estimated at 40,000 in 2016, which makes it a mid-sized district town. Its economy has long rested on agricultural processing, and the city has cotton-cleaning and oil-extracting factories. The settlement of Ittifoq lies close by. The town is part of the densely settled Fergana Valley region, where irrigated farming dominates the landscape, and it acts as the administrative and service centre for the surrounding district.