Urgut is a city in the Samarqand Region of Uzbekistan and the capital of Urgut District. Its population is 65,300. It is known for the grove of plane trees, some of which are more than 1000 years old. Urgut is located in a mountainous area. People in Urgut are a subgroup of ethnic Uzbeks who track their ancestry to people from a town of Urgut. There are almost 500,000 people who describe themselves as of from Urgut. Majority of the population speaks Uzbek.