Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan adopted the laws on 4 March 2011 and the Senate approved them on 26 August 2011.

The law “On naming geography objects” is aimed at regulating relations in naming geographical objects.

According to the document, assigned names of geographical objects should reflect the most typical signs of geographic object and should consists of not more than three words, as usual.

The document said that as a rule, it is not allowed to name regions, districts, cities, villages, settlements on behalf of people or historic events.

The law said that it is not also allowed to name streets, mahallas, squares, parks and other parts of settlements on behalf of people, public and political figures, except people, who made great contribution to Uzbekistan.

Names of administrative-territorial units should be derived from names of their administrative centers, geographic or historic name.

Names of transport infrastructure, including airports, stations and other objects, should be derived from names of the settlement or its parts.

It is not allowed to use same names of regions, districts, cities within Uzbekistan, settlements within Karakalpakstan and regions. Geographic objects in same district or city cannot have similar name.

The law said that geographic objects can be renamed only if there is significant change of the geographic object, and there is necessity to reanimate historic name or object was names with abbreviation, number or phrase, which do not meet requirements of the legislation.

Chambers of Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan assign names or renames districts, cities and regions of Uzbekistan on proposal of the Cabinet of Ministers, which is based on request of local administrations.

Jokargy Kenesh of Karakalpakstan assigns names and renames cities, districts, villages and settlements in Karakalpakstan on proposal of local administrations.

Naming and renaming of villages and settlements are carried out by Local People Deputies’ Council in places on proposal of local administrations.