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migration, remittances and Spending rational
The geography of migrants in Uzbekistan’s regions 
is demonstrated in Table 1. The highest number of 
migrants can be observed in the Samarkand and 
Kashkadarya regions, the smallest number in the 
capital city, Tashkent, and in the main industri-
al city, Navoi, where the mineral extraction in-
dustry still guarantees tens of thousands of jobs. 
Most  remittances are sent to the Syrdarya and 
Samarkand regions, while Tashkent and the auton-
omous province of Karakalpakstan have the small-
est numbers.
Table 1. Number of Migrants per Viloyat (Region), in Thousand People