About Kashkadarya region

Kashkadarya is one of the largest regions in Uzbekistan. The city of Karshi is the administrative center of the region. Kashkadarya is located in southeast of the country, in the Kashkadarya River Basin and on the western edges of the Pamir-Alai Mountain Range. There are 14 rural districts in the region, 12 towns, 4 town-type settlements and 145 villages.
The most developed branches of economy are natural gas and oil mining and processing, cotton production and processing, consumer oil extraction, construction materials production, knitting and food industries. The leading agricultural activities are cotton, grain and cocoon production, and livestock farming. Livestock farming and sheep keeping are well developed in the mountainous areas.  
There are 470,000 students attending about 1000 general secondary schools. The educational system is built on kindergartens, lyceums, specialized musical and sport schools, the Karshi State University, branches of the Tashkent Technical University and the Bukhara Technological Institute of Food and Textile Industry.
The cultural life of the region is maintained through musical and opera theaters, 500 libraries, and more than 270 clubs and other cultural establishments. More than 5,000 doctors and another nearly 20,000 medical personnel are responsible for the public health in the province.