Chuy Province



Chui Province Чүй областы Чуйская область
Caipital:	Bishkek
Aurie:	20,200 km²
Population:	763,900 (2009)
Population density:	40.5 fowk/km²
ISO 3166-2:	KG-C

Chuy Province or Chui Province (Kyrgyz: Чүй областы, Roushie: Чуйская область‎) is the northrenmaist province (oblast) o the Kyrgyz Republic. It is bundit, on the north bi Kazakhstan, an clockwise, Issyk Kul Province, Naryn Province, Jalal-Abad Province an Talas Province. Its admeenistrative center is Bishkek, but frae 2003 tae Mey 2006 it wis Tokmok.

Geography [edit]

Chuy River valley

The main northwast pairt o the province is flat, a rarity in Kyrgyzstan. This is the valley o the Chu River. The valley's black soil is vera fertile an is lairgely irrigatit wi water divertit frae the Chu River. Agricultural production includes wheat, maize, sugar beets, potatoes, lucerne, an various vegetables an fruits. Durin the Soviet period, various agro-processin an ither industries wur established throughoot the province, givin rise tae a number o urban centers such as Tokmok, Kant an Kara-Balta. The population is considerably mair heterogeneous than that o the ither regions o the kintra, wi mony ethnic Roushies, Ukrainians, Dungans, Koreans, Germans, etc.

The Kyrgyz Ala-Too muntains form soothren border o the province, an the northren border o Talas Province. There are mony hikin an trekkin routes accessible frae the touns in the valley. The soothwastren heel o the province ower the Kirgiz Alatau is geographically mair like Naryn province. The northeast panhandle is the Chong Kemin Valley.

The main east-wast transportation axis o the province is the Taraz-Bishkek-Balykchy hieway, runnin through maist major ceeties o the province. This road's section wast o Bishkek is pairt o European route E40, kent locally as Hieway M-39 (based on the auld USSR hieway numberin scheme). The same numbers apply tae the road that continues north-east frae Bishkek toward Almaty, crossin the Chuy River an leavin the province for Kazakhstan at Korday border crossin.

The anerlie railway in the province runs alang the same Taraz-Bishkek-Balykchy route; it sees comparatively little uise these days.

Basic Socio-Economic Indicators [edit]

Biggin an adobe brick hoose (Milyanfan)

Population: 763,900 (assessment for 1 Januar 2009)^[1]
Employed population: 328,000 (2008) ^[2]
Registered Unemployed Population: 7089 (на 2008)^[3]
Export: 248,1 million US dollars (2008)^[4]
Import: 220,9 million US dollars (2008) ^[4]
Direct Foreign Investments 2008: 66,2 million US dollars^[5]

Destricts o the Chuy Province [edit]

Chuy province is dividit admeenistratively intae 8 destricts, an the destrict-level ceety o Tokmok:^[6]: ^[7] ^[8]^[9] The Chuy Destrict surroonds the ceety o Tokmok. The Alamudun Destrict surroonds the ceety o Bishkek, which housomeivver is no pairt o Chuy Province but a province-level admeenistrative unit in its awn richt. The soothwastren heel is admeenistered as twa exclaves o Jaiyl an Panfilov Raions, Panfilov haein a valley tae the sootheast an Jaiyl the muntains tae the north, wast an soothwast. Raions belaw are leetit frae east tae wast.

Destrict	Caipital	Population (2006)
Kemin Destrict	Kemin	50,900
Chuy Destrict	Chuy	42,261
Ceety o Tokmok	Tokmok	58,000
Ysyk-Ata Destrict	Kant	125,856
Alamudun Destrict	Lebedinovka	111,783
Sokuluk Destrict	Sokuluk	136,543
Moskovsky Destrict	Belovodskoye	81,812
Jaiyl Destrict	Kara-Balta	94,428 (2009)
Panfilov Destrict	Kayyngdy (Каинда)	40,451