Which Asian country has the historic city of Samarkand?

Which Asian country has the historic city of Samarkand? Uzbekistan.

Samarkand is a historic city in southeastern Uzbekistan and one of Central Asia’s most celebrated crossroads. Its origins reach back to at least the early first millennium BC, and ancient sources knew it as Maracanda when Alexander the Great captured it in 329 BC.

The city prospered along Silk Road routes linking China, Persia, India, and the Mediterranean world. It was associated with Sogdian civilization and later became a major center of Persianate culture, Islamic scholarship, architecture, and trade. In the 14th century, the conqueror Timur made Samarkand the capital of his empire, commissioning grand monuments such as the Bibi-Khanym Mosque and the Gur-e Amir mausoleum.

Samarkand’s Registan, a public square framed by three monumental madrasas, is its best-known landmark. The city was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001 as “Samarkand—Crossroads of Cultures.” Its Persian and Tajik cultural history can cause confusion, but the city is within modern Uzbekistan, not Tajikistan or Kazakhstan.