an urban-type settlement and administrative center of Kitab Raion, Kashkadar’ia Oblast, Uzbek SSR. It is located along the Great Uzbek route, 4 km from the Kitab railroad station (the terminus of the line from Karsha). Population, 13,000 (1970). It has a gravel-sorting plant and a marble quarry. Kitab is well known for its embroidery (produced at a branch of the Shakhrisabz Khudzhum Factory). Nearby is the Ulugbek latitude station.