Subdivisions of Uzbekistan

[2] Before the October Revolution, the territory of modern Uzbekistan was divided between the Trans-Caspian, Samarkand, Syrdarya, and Ferghana regions of the Russian Empire, as well as between its vassal possessions—the Bukhara Emirate and the Khanate of Khiva.

[4] On September 16, 1924, an extraordinary session of the Central Electoral Commission of the Turkestan ASSR ruled to go forward with the national-state delimitation.

It comprised part of the lands of the former Samarkand, Semirechye and Ferghana Oblasts, as well as the Bukhara and Khorezm SSRs abolished at that time.

Instead, they were converted into 10 okrugs: Andijan, Bukhara, Zeravshan, Kashka-Darya, Samarkand, Surkhan-Darya, Tashkent, Ferghana, Khodjent and Khorezm.

[9] On January 15, 1938, the Uzbek SSR underwent again some transformations to comprise the newly established Bukhara (including Surkhan-Darya Okrug), Samarkand, Tashkent, Ferghana and Khorezm Oblasts.

km of underutilized lands of Chimkent and Kzyl-Orda belonging to Kazakh SSR be allocated to Uzbekistan.

Shortly thereafter, on February 16, 1963, a new Syrdarya Oblast was established from the parts of the newly acquired agricultural lands of Samarkand and Tashkent regions (the center originally set in Yangiyer, however starting from November 1963 in Gulistan).

Consequently, as of January 1, 1987, the administrative-territorial division of the Uzbek SSR was as follows:[9] On September 6, 1988, the Jizzakh and Navoi oblasts were abolished.

In the early 1990s, a number of regions and cities of Uzbekistan that bore Soviet ideological names were renamed.

The last (as of 2012) major change in the administrative-territorial division of Uzbekistan was the transfer of the Yangiabad District from the Syrdarya region to Jizzakh in 1999.