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Syr Darya (oblast)

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Syr Darya

Wiloyat (region) in eastern Uzbekistan; area 20,900 sq km/8,069 sq mi; population (1996) 580,000. The capital is Gulistan. The principal economic activity is the cultivation of cotton. Most of the wiloyat lies in the Betpak-Dala desert; the province is traversed by the Syr Darya River.

The wiloyat was formed in 1963 from parts of Samarkand wiloyat and Tashkent wiloyat, together with a some regions formerly belonging to the Kazakh SSR. The region was developed as part of Khruschchev's ‘Virgin Lands’ campaign of the 1950s and 1960s.
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