The Kabul Tribune (KT) — More than 205,000 Afghan citizens traveled to Uzbekistan for business purposes during the first six months of 2026, making Afghanistan the largest source of business visitors to the neighboring country, Kun.uz reported, citing Uzbekistan's National Statistics Committee.
According to the report, 228,615 foreign nationals visited
Uzbekistan for commercial purposes during the first half of the year.
The statistics showed that 205,937 Afghan citizens entered
Uzbekistan for business activities during the period, accounting for the
highest number of business visitors among all foreign nationalities.
Turkmenistan ranked second with 16,322 business visitors,
followed by Tajikistan with 4,320.
According to the data, 628 citizens of Kyrgyzstan, 311
citizens of Kazakhstan, 230 citizens of Russia and 188 citizens of Turkey also
traveled to Uzbekistan for business purposes during the same period.
Business visitors from all other countries combined totaled 679,
the report said.
