Editing Tashkent (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:Bread Vendor (220641945).jpeg|thumb|Bread vendor in a market street of Tashkent]]
In 1983, the population of Tashkent amounted to 1,902,000 people living in a municipal area of {{cvt|256|km2|0}}. By 1991, the year the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|Soviet Union dissolved]], the city's population had grown to approximately 2,136,600. Tashkent was the fourth most populated city in the former [[Soviet Union|USSR]], after [[Moscow]], Leningrad ([[St. Petersburg]]), and [[Kyiv]]. Nowadays, Tashkent remains the fourth most populous city in the CIS.

As of 2020, the city's population was 2,716,176.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/es/89801/%D0%A2%D0%90%D0%A8%D0%9A%D0%95%D0%9D%D0%A2 |title=ТАШКЕНТ (город) |publisher=Dic.academic.ru |access-date=24 November 2013}}</ref>

{{citation needed span|{{As of|2008}}, the demographic structure of Tashkent was as follows:|date=October 2022}}
*78.0% – [[Uzbeks]] 
*5% – [[Russians]]
*4.5% – [[Tatars]]
*2.2% – [[Koreans in Uzbekistan|Koryo-saram (Koreans)]] 
*2.1% – [[Tajiks]]
*1.2% – [[Uighurs]]
*7.0% – other ethnic backgrounds{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

{{Historical populations
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| source = Uzbekistan State Statistics Committee<ref name="StatsPop">{{Cite web |url=https://api.stat.uz/api/v1.0/data/hududlar-boyicha-shahar-va-qishloq-aholisi-soni?lang=uz&format=pdf |title=Hududlar boʻyicha shahar va qishloq aholisi soni (2010&ndash;2021-yillar) |date=2021-07-16 |language=uz |publisher=Uzbekistan State Statistics Committee |access-date=2021-07-16}}</ref><ref name="StatsUzOld">{{Cite web |url=http://stat.uz/upload/iblock/f6f/Doimiy%20aholi%20soni.xls |title=Постоянное среднее число населения |date=2013-09-27 |language=ru |publisher=Uzbekistan State Statistics Committee |access-date=2014-04-10 |archive-date=2013-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021105721/http://stat.uz/upload/iblock/f6f/Doimiy%20aholi%20soni.xls}}</ref> and Demoscope.ru<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_gub_97.php?reg=86 |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |website=www.demoscope.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr59_reg2.php |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |website=www.demoscope.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr70_reg2.php |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |website=www.demoscope.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr79_reg2.php |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |website=www.demoscope.ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/sng89_reg2.php |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |website=www.demoscope.ru}}</ref>
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|1897 |155673
|1959 |911930
|1970 |1384509
|1979 |1780002
|1983 |1902000
|1989 |2072459
|1991 |2130200
|1995 |2097400
|2000 |2142300
|2001 |2137900
|2002 |2136600
|2003 |2139200
|2004 |2135400
|2005 |2135700
|2006 |2140600
|2007 |2157100
|2008 |2180000
|2009 |2206300
|2010 |2234300
|2011 |2296500
|2012 |2309300
|2013 |2340900
|2014 |2352900
|2015 |2371300
|2016 |2393200
|2017 |2424100
|2018 |2464900
|2019 |2509900
|2020 |2571700
|2021 |2694400
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[[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] is the main spoken language in Tashkent, though [[Russian language|Russian]] is also spoken as a lingua franca. As in much of Uzbekistan, signage in Tashkent often contains a mix of Latin and Cyrillic scripts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-a-second-coming-for-the-russian-language |title=Uzbekistan: A second coming for the Russian language? |publisher=eurasianet |access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://chalkboard.tol.org/uzbekistan-dead-letter/ |title=Uzbekistan: Dead Letter |publisher=Chalkboard |date=23 July 2007 |access-date=30 October 2019 |archive-date=31 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031165138/http://chalkboard.tol.org/uzbekistan-dead-letter/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>