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LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

of October 12, 2011 No. ZRU-303

About names of geographical objects

Accepted by Legislative house on March 4, 2011

Approved by the Senate on August 26, 2011

(as amended on 11-11-2022)

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Purpose and scope of this Law

The purpose of this Law is regulation of the relations in the field of names of geographical objects.

Operation of this Law extends also to names of the geographical objects which are outside the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan regarding their use in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Article 2. Legislation on names of geographical objects

The legislation on names of geographical objects consists of this Law and other acts of the legislation.

If the international treaty of the Republic of Uzbekistan establishes other rules, than those which are stipulated by the legislation the Republic of Uzbekistan about names of geographical objects then are applied rules of the international treaty.

Article 3. Basic concepts

In this Law the following basic concepts are applied:

geographical objects - complete and rather steady formations of Earth of natural or artificial origin which exist or existed in the past and are characterized by certain location. Treat them: administrative and territorial units (areas, areas, cities, settlements, kishlaks, auls); settlements and their components (waved, avenues, streets, squares, parks, squares); objects of transport and technical infrastructure (railway stations, bus stations, stations of the subway, stations, airports, ports, piers, bridges, traveling, roads, canals, water storage basins, dikes, dams); natural objects (the rivers, lakes, glaciers, plains, mountains, ridges, caves, deserts, valleys, gorges, the protected natural territories, natural boundaries, mineral deposits) and other similar it objects;

names of geographical objects - own names of geographical objects which are used for their difference and recognition;

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