Population:6 019 480 Official language:Kyrgyz, Russian Other spoken languages: There are some Uzbek and Kazakh minorities in Kyrgyzstan, as well as Donggan Chinese minority, with their own languages. The yonger people, especially in the bigger cities and the travel destinations usually can speak E...
ESTIMATED 2000 POPULATION5,158,100 LOCATION AND GEOGRAPHY:Kyrgyzstan is located in Central Asia and is a former republic of the USSR. It is bound by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the southeast and east. The country lies between the...
Population: 7.037 million Languages: Kyrgyz (official language), Russian (interethnic, in large cities) Religion: Islam - 82.7%, Christianity - 16%, other faiths - 2% Electricity: 220V AC, 50 A; standard double plug socket Time zone: + 6 hours Internet zone: .kg International telephone code...
Administratively, Kyrgyzstan is divided into seven provinces (oblus, from Russian oblast) and two cities (shaar). The two cities are Osh city and the country’s capital Bishkek. Bishkek was known as Frunze during Soviet times, named after Red Army hero Mikhael Frunze. In 1991, four months...
mysterious ancient statues called bulbuls. Follow along the legendary Silk Road to Tash Rabat, a historic caravanserai and possible Nestorian church. More recent Soviet history is in evidence too, not least in the abundance of Lenin statues that adorn the streets of Kyrgyzstan's towns and cities...
Naryn town. Cities in Kyrgyzstan. River Naryn. Naryn weather. History of Naryn town. The population of the town of Naryn
Between 1926 and 1989 the urban portion of the Kyrgyz population grew from almost nothing to more than one-fifth, though theKyrgyzremained a minority in most cities and towns. During this period fewer than one-fourth of the inhabitants of the capital,Frunze(now Bishkek), were Kyrgyz; Slavs ...
There were 750000 internet users by March 2008 (ITU figure). The net has yet to make significant inroads outside the towns and cities. The press Slovo Kyrgyzstana- government-owned published three times a week Vecherniy Bishkek- private daily ...
s supporters and the police and the opposition in the top two cities in the south, Osh and Jalalabad. Then, the central government of Kyrgyzstan lost control of the southern region and the northern state of Talas. Protests in Bishkek were more and more frequent and even the enforcement ...
Cities in Kyrgyzstan Osh is the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan, and is reputedly 3,000 years old. Archaeologists have found artifacts dating back to the fifth century B.C. One claim that is often heard is that Osh is "Older than Rome". There are several legends about the origin of ...