Country name, international abbreviation: Uzbekistan, UZ, UZB
Settled: 10th century AD (as Khavakend); modern city re-established in 1709
Type: City Administration (City of regional significance in Fergana Region)
Area: ~63 km² (24 sq mi)
Population: ~313,500
Time zone: UTC +5
Area code: 73
Average temperature/year: 15.0°C (59°F)
Kokand is a city in the Fergana region in eastern Uzbekistan, in the Southwest part of the Fergana Valley. The population is more than 320 thousand people.
Kokand, under different names, has been known since the tenth century, but it flourished in the XVIII century when the city became the capital of the Kokand Khanate.
Kokand has a very ancient structure; it consists of new and old parts. The new town consisted of trades, administrative buildings, banks, and residences, and in the old part the khan palace Urda, monuments of national and residential architecture, mosques, madrassahs, and memorial constructions of the XIX – ХХ centuries remained. 
The first date about Kokand we may see in the notes of the Chinese diplomat and traveler Zhang Qian, who visited Davan, which was on the territory of the modern Fergana Valley. In 138 BC. Zhang Qian was sent by the emperor U-di to the Central Asian peoples for help in military operations against the Khuns. The Khuns devastated the northern outlying districts of China.
Existing now, Kokand was built as a fortress in 1732 on the site of the old fortress Eski-Kurgan. The city at the height of the Kokand Khanate, the city was a major religious center of the Fergana region at the time, there were more than 300 mosques.
The original palace, Khudoyarkhan (1871) – the palace of the last khan of Kokand remained till our days. Today it is the local historical museum. In the liner, majolica of an original range of colors and patterns not found in other regions of Uzbekistan is used. Madrassah Norbut-Biy (1799) and mausoleum Modarikhon (1825) are also of interest.
