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Tashkent Zoo

The city zoo next to the Botanical Garden, opened on its present 22.7-hectare site in 1997, with more than 3,000 animals and an aquarium.

AttractionsFounded 1924; present site 1997About 2 hours to see

About the place

The zoo was founded in 1924 on about 3 hectares of the former country house of the governor-general of Turkestan, where a small menagerie already existed. By the late 1940s it held more than 200 species.

In 1994–1997 a new zoo with landscaped enclosures was built on part of the Botanical Garden, and the collection moved there on 1 September 1997. Today it covers 22.7 hectares, keeps over 3,000 animals and has an aquarium section with marine tanks.

Why go

  • Large landscaped enclosures
  • Aquarium with marine tanks
  • Next to the Botanical Garden

Sources (5)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.uz.wikipedia.org
  4. 4.openstreetmap.org
  5. 5.tashkentzoo.uz

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