Pakhtakor, Uzbekistan
Pakhtakor is a town in Jizzakh Region, Uzbekistan. It is the capital of Pakhtakor District.Name
The word Pakhta in Persian means cotton and kor from kar-, kardan "to do, to make", produces a job name from a noun.
In 1989 it had a population of 15,366, and has an estimated population of 23,593 in 2012.
In 1974 Paxtakor was granted city status. The city has a cotton-cleaning factory.
