Muborak is a small city in the Qashqadaryo Region of Uzbekistan and the administrative centre of Muborak District, with a population of 30,100 in 2016. It arose around an oil refinery and received city status in 1974. The name means gracious in Uzbek, and local legend ties it to the village of Xoʻjamuborak, created in honor of the Islamic scholar Abdullah bin al-Mubarak al-Marwazi. By road it lies 520 kilometres southwest of Tashkent, and it has a cool arid climate, Koppen class BWk, with chilly winters and very hot, dry summers. Once a small town specializing in animal husbandry, it is now an important oil and gas centre and home to the Muborak Gas Processing Plant, one of the largest of its type in the country. Its football team is Mashʼal.
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Its population is 30,100 (2016).
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Muborak has a cool arid climate (Köppen climate classification BWk).
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Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a sovereign, doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.
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Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a sovereign, doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.
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