Tashkent

Uzbekistan

Tashkent, also spelled Toshkent, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3.1 million people as of July 1, 2025. It is located in northeastern Uzbekistan. Tashkent's history stretches back centuries as part of the ancient Silk Road, the network of trade routes that connected the Eastern world and the Western world. The city has long been a crossroads of cultures, goods and ideas.

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Country: Uzbekistan
Population: 2,184,000
Latitude: 41.31° N
Longitude: 69.29° E

Which way is Tashkent from…

From Paris, Tashkent lies at 73° to the east, 5,150 km as the crow flies.

Paris	73° east	5,150 km
London	74° east	5,234 km
New York	27° north-east	10,172 km
Madrid	63° north-east	5,946 km
Rome	71° east	4,633 km
Montreal	27° north-east	9,681 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	12° north	7,061 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Between London and Tashkent, flat map and compass disagree by 28°: the map says 102°, the compass 74°, still east but well to the north, 5,234 km away. From New York the gap becomes huge: the map shows due east (90°), the compass 27°, north-east, because the shortest route flies over Greenland and northern Scandinavia. A landmark: Tashkent lies on Rome’s latitude, and Kabul is due south, 756 km away.