Official Name: | Yangiyer |
Native Name: | Uzbek: Yangiyer |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Uzbekistan |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Uzbekistan |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Uzbekistan |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Sirdaryo Region |
Area Metro Km2: | 30.0 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 44200 |
Coordinates: | 40.2667°N 117°W |
Postal Code Type: | 121000 |
Postal Code: | 121001 |
Yangiyer (Uzbek: Yangiyer — new land) — is a city in Sirdaryo Region, Eastern Uzbekistan. It is a district-level city.[1] Its population is 44,200 (2021).[2]
The name of the city is translated from Uzbek as "new land".
It was established in 1957 as part of the grand Soviet project to cultivate the naturally saline virgin lands of Mirzachoʻl, a vast area of about 10,000 square kilometres in Eastern Uzbekistan. The shortage of irrigation water was the main problem hindering the development of agriculture in the area.
The city has several plants including a plant of building materials, pipe plant, asphalt plant.
Yangier also has a branch of Tashkent Institute of Agriculture and Irrigation Engineering, a college of civil engineering and a museum dedicated to cultivation of virgin lands of Mirzachoʻl