Mount Adelung () is the highest peak in Pskem Mountains () in the extreme north-east of the Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan.Physical map of Tashkent Region, Uzgeodezkadastr, Tashkent, 2002 (low resolution) Mount Adelung is the highest point of Tashkent Province at , just 2 metres higher than the nearby Mount Beshtor, located a little further to the southwest in the same range, and it is often erroneously identified in various web sources as the "highest point in Uzbekistan". In fact, this honor goes to the Khazret Sultan, a peak with an altitude of 4,643 m in Surxondaryo Region, in the Uzbek part of the Gissar Range, on the border with Tajikistan, which was formerly known as Peak of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party.Atlas of the Soviet Central Asian Republics, Geodesy and Cartography Authority, Moscow, 1988, in Russian.Administrative map of the Republic of Uzbekistan, State Committee of Land Resources, Geodesy, Cartography, and State Cadastre, Tashkent, 2007.
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