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![Urgench](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Waterfront_of_Shavat_canal_in_Urganch.jpg)

# Urgench

Urgench is a district-level city in western Uzbekistan.

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## Every way there

- Nukus → Urgench 132 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · $13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/nukus-to-urgench) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Nukus&to=Urgench)
- Bukhara → Urgench 377 km · quickest by road, 5h 24m · $34–46 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bukhara-to-urgench) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bukhara&to=Urgench)
- Samarkand → Urgench 575 km · quickest by air, 5h 59m · $190–290 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/samarkand-to-urgench) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Samarkand&to=Urgench)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Urgench, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Urgench](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/urgench)

What Urgench has

- Y Scheduled flights Urgench (UGC), 4 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Beruniy, 19 km.

41.550°, 60.633°

It is the capital of Xorazm Region. The estimated population of Urgench in 2021 was 145,000, an increase from 139,100 in 1999. It lies on the Amu Darya River and the Shavat canal. The city is situated 450 km (280 mi) west of Bukhara across the Kyzylkum Desert.

Eat

## Where to eat

Eating out in Urgench can be a challenge. Waiters usually don't speak English and sometimes only Russian. The menus are mostly written in Cyrillic, and either in Russian or in Uzbek.

How locals move

## Getting around Urgench the local way

- Get in From Bukhara, the next closest Silk Road site, the 460km trip in a shared taxi should cost between 50,000-80,000 sum per person \[Sep 2012\].

From [Wikivoyage: Urgench](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Urgench), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgench) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Urgench), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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