Issyk Kul Province
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| Issyk Kul Province Ысык-Көл областы Иссык-Кульская область |
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| Caipital: | Karakol |
| Aurie: | 43,100 km² |
| Population: | 437,200 (2009) |
| Population density: | 10.1 /km² |
| ISO 3166-2: | KG-Y |
Issyk Kul Province (Kyrgyz: Ысык-Көл областы) is a province (oblast) o Kyrgyzstan. Its caipital is Karakol. It is surroondit by Almaty Province, Kazakhstan (north), Chui Province (wast), Naryn Province (soothwast) an Xinjiang, Cheenae (sootheast).
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[edit] Geography
The north is dominatit bi the eye-shaped Issyk Kul Lake, surroondit bi the ridges o the Tian Shan muntain seestem: the Kyungey Ala-Too muntains tae the north an the Terskey Alatau tae the sooth (the 'sunny' an 'shady' Alatau, respectively). Tae the sooth is muntains an 'jailoos' (muntain meadows uised for summer grazin). The heichest peaks o the Tian Shan muntains, includin Khan Tengri, are locatit in the eastrenmaist pairt o the province.
Maist o the population o the province lives aroond the lake, in particular in the ceeties o Balykchy near the lake's wastren end, an Karakol near its eastren end.
[edit] Basic Socio-Economic Indicators
- Population: 437,200 (assessment for 1 Januar 2009) including 28.7% - urban, and 71.3% - rural population[1]
- Employed population: 180,300 (2008) [2]
- Registered unemployed population: 4,902 (2008)[3]
- Export: 18.8 million US dollars (2008)[4]
- Import: 221.7 million US dollars (2008) [4]
- Direct Foreign Investments: 1,1 million US dollars (in 2008)[5]
[edit] Transportation
The railroad comin frae the northwast (frae Bishkek) ends at Balykchy. The main hieway (A365) frae Bishkek passes through Balykchy an intae Naryn Province on its way tae the Torugart Pass intae Cheenae. Hieway A363 circles the lake an A362 runs east frae the lake intae Kazakhstan.
[edit] Tourism
The province, which resembles the Alps or Colorado, woud be a major tourist destination wur it no for its remoteness, unnerdeveloped infrastructure, an growin conflict atween Kyrgyz naitionalists an independence factions, which in December 2008 flared up again, killin 39 civilians. Currently, it is visited maistly bi locals who uise the soviet-era establishments aroond the lake an the mair adventurous sort o internaitional tourist.
[edit] Trivia
There is a village bi the name o Kyzyldzhildyz in this province. Its name is haurd enough tae pronoonce for foreigners tae the leid that the village's mayor haes affered a reward for ony American that can pronoonce "Kyzyldzhildyz".
[edit] Districts o Issyk Kul
Issyk Kul is divided admeenistratively into 5 districts:[6]:
| District | Caipital |
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| Ak-Suu District | Karakol |
| Jeti-Oguz District | Kyzyl-Suu |
| Tong District | Bokonbaev |
| Tup District | Tyup |
| Issyk Kul District | Cholpon-Ata |
[edit] References
- ↑ National Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian)
- ↑ National Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian)
- ↑ National Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 National Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian)
- ↑ National Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian)
- ↑ Kyrgyzstan - Джалал-Абадская область
- Laurence Mitchell, Kyrgyzstan, Bradt Travel Guides, 2008
[edit] Freemit airtins
- Guide tae the region frae the Spektator magazine
- (Inglis) Karakol - Djeti-Oguz region in Central Tien-Shan
(Mountaineering reports and maps. Although the site is in English, with some web browsers you may need to set "Character Encoding" to "Cyrillic" in the "View" menu of your browser in order to get better display of the main page).
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