Чимкент

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1)  Shymkent (old name used before 8 September 1992)

Usage notes
The city has been renamed on 8 September 1992. The new form was reborrowed from, violating the rules of Russian orthography, which state that the sound should always be written with the letter  if it follows  or. For this reason, Russian-language media outside of Kazakhstan prefer to use the older form.