Qoʻshkoʻpir
town in Uzbekistan
Qoʻshkoʻpir (Uzbek: Qoʻshkoʻpir, Қўшкўпир, قۉشكۉپیر; Russian: Кошкупыр, romanized: Koshkupyr) is an urban-type settlement and seat of Qoʻshkoʻpir District in Xorazm Region in Uzbekistan. Its population is 18,700 (2016).
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Qoʻshkoʻpir” is town in Uzbekistan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Qoʻshkoʻpir, town and Uzbekistan, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q650339. VIAF identifies the subject as 143282187. The Library of Congress control number is n2006037730. Authority coordinates are 41.533, 60.350. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.
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This entry incorporates text from “Qoʻshkoʻpir” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.