GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF SETTLEMENTS IN DEVELOPED LANDS IN THE TERRITORY OF UZBEKISTAN

Abstract

All regions of Uzbekistan have territories with desert properties and the distribution of the population in these places has its own characteristics. Such territories are deserts, which have been developed since the second half of the 20th century. Of course, the general natural conditions of Uzbekistan are arid and low-water, and such lands exist in all regions. However, the development of the Mirzachol, Jizzakh and Karshi deserts, which for centuries were uninhabited and used only as pastures in the Jizzakh, Syrdarya and Kashkadarya regions, and their transformation into predominantly artificially irrigated agricultural land is a huge phenomenon, it is assessed how, as a result of this work, new settlements - cities and villages - were formed and developed. Now these territories represent settlement systems with full-fledged economic structures. At the same time, economic, social and environmental problems characteristic of population resettlement arose. Such problems are common to the problems of regions where the population lives for a long time, and regions have their own characteristics determined by their natural and economic-social conditions. Therefore, a comparative analysis of population settlement and development of settlements in these regions and the study of their specific problems are posed in the article as a pressing issue. As a result of the analysis, specific aspects of the development of the areas being developed are clearly identified, suggestions and comments are given. 

Keywords

deserts, developed territories, regions, artificial irrigation system, population distribution, populated areas.