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Jizak region. The Jizak region is relatively a young region. It was founded on December 29, 1973 to improve and increase development of industry and agriculture, to efficiently use the existing reserves of the land that formerly used to be the desert and to improve the life of the people. The region includes 9 districts taken from the Syrdarya region and 2 districts of the Samarkand region. The origin of the region was conditioned by the development of cotton-growing and other fields of national economy on the former desert lands, by rich reserves and resources of this area that were required for further increase of the economy.
In the aim of hastening social-economic developing of southern parts of Khavast and Boyaut districts of the Syrdarya region, which adjacent to the Jizak region, to promote efficacy of guidance, to improve transport and other services for population, to make good conditions for everyday needs of citizens. After looked through an appropriate proposal of the Cabinet of Ministry Oliy Majlis of the Respublic of Uzbekistan accepted the Decree «About making an administrative-territorial district Yangiabad in the Jizak region». April 15, 1999.
The area of a new Yangiaabad district with a part of Khavast and Bayaut districts of Syrdarya region is 717.4 sq/km.
The Jizak region borders on Kazakhstan in the North, on Tajikistan in the South, on the Samarkand region in the West and on the Syrdarya region in the East. The area of the region is equal to 21`.2 thousand km² (about 4.5% of the total area of Uzbekistan), its population-980.2 thousand people. The population density is 46.2 people per km². 32% of the populations reside in towns and 68% are rural people.
The central city of the region is Jizak. Its population is 128.9 people. There are 12 rural districts (the Amasay, Bahmal, Dustlik, Jizak, Zabdar, Zafrabad, Zaamin, Mirzachul, Pahtakor, Farish, Gallaaral, Yangiaabad districts) and 7 towns (Jizak, Dustlik, Dashtaabad, Gagarin, Pahtakor, Marjanbulak, Gallaaral). Among 7 towns of the region Jizak is the oldest «veteran» city. The other towns are young, appeared on the map of the region during the last 25 years.