Yangiyer

Yangiyer is a district-level city in the Sirdaryo Region of eastern Uzbekistan, with a population of 44,200 in 2021. Its name means new land in Uzbek. It was established in 1957 as part of a large Soviet project to cultivate the naturally saline virgin lands of Mirzachoʻl, a vast area of about 10,000 square kilometres whose development was held back by a shortage of irrigation water. The city has plants producing building materials, pipes and asphalt, a branch of the Tashkent Institute of Agriculture and Irrigation Engineering, a college of civil engineering and a museum dedicated to the cultivation of the Mirzachoʻl virgin lands. It has a cold semi-arid climate, Koppen class BSk.