Ta'shkent— stolitsa Respublika Uzbekistan, administrativny tsentr Ta'shkentskoy oblasti. Krupneyshiy po chislennosti naseleniya gorod Uzbekistana i Tsentral'noy Azii, tsentr Ta'shkentskoy gorodskoy aglomeratsii, vazhneyshiy aviatsionnyy, zheleznodorozhnyy i avtomobil'nyy uzel, a takzhe politicheskiy, ekonomicheskiy, kul'turnyy i nauchnyy tsentr strany. Na teritorii Ta'shkentskoy oblasti s drevnikh vremen prozhivali razlichnye narody. Zdes', nachinaya s IV veka do nashey ery, zhili tyurkskiye plemena i drugiye etnicheskiye gruppy.