More than 90 per cent mountainous, with the Tian Shan covering most of the country.
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Republic ยท ะััะณัะทััะฐะฝ
Asia
ยท Central Asia
0Population
199.95Kkmยฒ of land
$1.31KGDP / person
BishkekCapital
- ISO codes
- KG ยท KGZ
- Density
- 32 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Kyrgyz, Russian
- Currency
- Kyrgyzstani som (KGS)
- Dial code
- +996
- Internet domain
- .kg
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 41.6690ยฐ N, 74.5330ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Kirghiz
- UN region
- Central Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $8.45B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Kyrgyzstan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
111th
of 242 ยท 0.08% of world population
Land area
88th
of 242 ยท 0.13% of world land
GDP per person
204th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
174th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Kyrgyzstan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 6,456,900 people, the 111th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 1,189 of everyone alive.
Covers 199,951 kmยฒ, making it the 88th largest country here - about 6.5 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 32 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Bishkek, at 42.88ยฐ N, 74.58ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 837,000.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Bishkek.
The currency is the Kyrgyzstani som (KGS, symbol ั).
Has 2 official languages: Kyrgyz and Russian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Bishkek
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UTC+06:00
Cities
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Bishkek
Bishkek
42.8750ยฐ N, 74.5833ยฐ E
837K
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Kyrgyzstan.