It lies near the modern village of Krasnaya Rechka, in the Chüy Valley, present-day Kyrgyzstan, about 30 kilometers east of Bishkek.

[2] Navekat was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014[3] as a part of the site "Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor".

There was a citadel (Persian: كهندز, romanized: kuhandiz) in the northeastern part of the city built on a massive earthen platform.

The volume of this platform was about 13 million cubic meters, probably the largest man-made mound in the world.

During archaeological excavations, artifacts uncovered included a golden burial mask and an 8-meter-long reclining Buddha statue in one of the two Buddhist temples.