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It includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. [5] The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan" (meaning 'land') in both respective native languages and most other languages.
Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked nation in Central Asia, with an area of 199,951 km². [1] The national territory extends about 900 km (560 mi) from east to west and 410 km (250 mi) from north to south. [2] Kyrgyzstan is bordered on the east and southeast by China, on the north by Kazakhstan, on the west by Uzbekistan, and on the south by Tajikistan.
A map of Kyrgyzstan Issyk-Kul Lake , or Ysyk-Köl in Kyrgyz , in the north-eastern Tian Shan is the largest lake in Kyrgyzstan and the second largest mountain lake in the world after Titicaca . The lowest point is in Kara-Daryya (Karadar'ya) at 132 meters and the highest peaks are in the Kakshaal-Too range, forming the Chinese border.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan – sovereign country located in Central Asia. [1] Landlocked and mountainous , Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest, and China to the east.
Kyrgyzstan is divided into seven regions (Kyrgyz: облус, romanized: oblus; Russian: область, romanized: oblast). [1] The capital, Bishkek, is administered as an independent city of republican significance, as well as being the capital of Chüy Region. Osh also has independent city status since 2003. [2]
A list of mountain ranges in Kyrgyzstan includes 158 mountain ranges in Central Tien-Shan (16), North Tien-Shan (19), Internal Tien-Shan (48), West Tien-Shan ...
The Kazakhstan–Kyrgyzstan border is 1,212 kilometres (753 mi) and runs from the tripoint with Uzbekistan to the tripoint with China. [1] Bishkek , the Kyrgyz capital, is situated just 16 km (10 mi) to the south of this boundary, and Almaty (Kazakhstan's largest city and former capital) is situated just 29 kilometres (18 mi) to the north of it.
stan (Persian: ستان stân, [n 1] estân or istân [n 2]) has the meaning of "a place abounding in" [1] or "a place where anything abounds" as a suffix. [2] It is widely used by Iranian languages as well as the common Turkish languages (excluding Siberian Turkic ) and other languages.