.png)  Location of Banakat in Uzbekistan  Banakat (Uzbekistan) | |
| Location | Uzbekistan |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 40°45′59″N 68°54′04″E / 40.76639°N 68.90111°E |
Banākat, Banākath, Fanākat, or Fanākath was a town on the upper Syr Darya in Transoxiana (present-day Uzbekistan, Central Asia).
The second part of these names, kat or kath, is an Eastern Iranian (Soghdian) compound meaning town. Its other forms are kāt, kāth, kant, kand as in Samarkand and Chāchkand (now Tashkent). It is similar to the Persian suffix '-kada'. Banokat , Fanokat, Sharqiya, Shahrukhiya is an ancient city ruin ( 1st - 18th centuries ) located on the right bank of the Syrdarya , on the edge of the caravan road at the confluence of the Ohangaron (Ilaq) River with the Syrdarya.