Chimbai

a city (since 1926) under republic (ASSR) jurisdiction and administrative center of Chimbai Raion, Kara-Kalpak ASSR. Situated on the right bank of the lower Amu Darya, 56 km north of Nukus. Population, 21,000 (1974). Industry is represented by a cotton-ginning plant, a vegetable-oil mill, a brickyard, a building-materials plant, and an asphalt-concrete plant. Chimbai has a sovkhoz technicum and a pedagogical school.