Mangʻit

Mangʻit is the seat of Amudaryo District in the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan within Uzbekistan. It is located on the border with Turkmenistan, about 10 kilometres northeast of the Turkmen town of Gubadag and about 10 kilometres west of the Amu Darya river, and 50 kilometres southeast of Nukus, the Karakalpak capital. Its population is 33,200 as of 2016. Mangʻit was the site of battles during the Russian army's Khivan campaign of 1873, and Soviet Mangʻit was formally founded on 18 December 1957 and gained city status in 1973. As in much of the region its economy is based on growing and processing cotton. Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia, so Mangʻit has no coast.