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Xojeli

Karakalpak: Xojeli/Хожели
Xojeli Karakalpak: Xojeli/Хожели
City
	Xojeli Location in Uzbekistan
	Coordinates: 42°24′N 59°27′E / 42.400°N 59.450°E
Country	Uzbekistan
Autonomous Republic	Karakalpakstan
District	Xojeli district
Population (2016)
• Total	67,800
Time zone	UTC+5 (UZT)

Xojeli, also Khodzheyli (Karakalpak: Xojeli/Хожели,[xoˈʒeli]; Russian: Ходжейли, romanized: Khodzheyli), is a city and seat of Xojeli District in Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan.^[1] It lies 15 km southwest of Nukus, and 25 km northeast of Konye-Urgench (Turkmenistan). Its population is 67,800 (2016).^[2] Xojeli has a railway station on the line from Atyrau (western Kazakhstan) to Tashkent.^[3]

There is an ancient city and archaelogical complex called Mizdarkhan, located northeast of Xojeli, which consists of several medieval and ancient archaeological sites as: underground Mausoleum of Nazlymhan Sulu, Mausoleum of Shamun Naby (a Sufi scholar), Medrese of Erezhep Halifa and Hill of Zhomart Kassap (ancient Zoroastrian dakhma).^{[citation needed]} Nowadays, Mizdarkhan functions also as a graveyard and people in Karakalpakstan visit on pilgrimage.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "Classification system of territorial units of the Republic of Uzbekistan" (in Uzbek and Russian). The State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on statistics. July 2020.
^ Soliyev, A.S. Shaharlar geografiyasi [Geography of cities] (PDF) (in Uzbek). p. 143.
^ Uzbekistan Railways timetable

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[class-1] "Classification system of territorial units of the Republic of Uzbekistan" (in Uzbek and Russian). The State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on statistics. July 2020.

[shaharlar-2] Soliyev, A.S. Shaharlar geografiyasi [Geography of cities] (PDF) (in Uzbek). p. 143.

[3] Uzbekistan Railways timetable

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