Kyrgyzstan Trivia

1. When you visit Kyrgyzstan you won't be travelling on what mode of transportation?

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Answer: Ocean Liner

Kyrgyzstan is one of the world's 43 landlocked nations. However being landlocked does not mean Kyrgyzstan is without important waterways or modes of transportation. There are over 40,000 rivers and streams in the country. Kyrgyzstan has both extensive railways and an international airport. When traveling in Kyrgyzstan, a wonderful tour is to barge along the Chatkal River. The Chatkal flows along the western edge of Kyrgyzstan for 189 kilometers through high mountain passes and remote valleys. Vast walnut and maple groves flank the river's banks. Along the river, tourists can experience ancient human cave settlements, including some with Neolithic petroglyphs. Tourists may also visit large Bronze and early Iron Age burial mounds that show the extent that early civilization existed in the country.

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Answer: It's the second-largest high-altitude lake in the world.

Lake Issyk-kul is smaller only than Lake Titicaca in South America when it comes to mountain lakes. Covering more than 6000 square kilometers (2400 square miles), the lake has no visible outlet. While not freshwater, the lake is much less saline than the oceans. It is the tenth-largest lake in the world and the second-largest saline lake, after the Caspian Sea. Because it never freezes in the winter, Issyk-kul's name is derived from Kyrgyz for "hot lake". Several endangered species of fish live in the lake's fragile ecosystem.

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Answer: Forty Kyrgz tribes

The forty rays on the Kyrgyzstan flag represent forty tribes of Kyrgyz people that fought and won a great victory over the Oirat and Khitan Mongols in the 9th century under the leadership of the Kyrgyz national hero, Manas. According to legend, the Kyrgyz people were a collection of forty tribes of Siberian nomads. Manas molded the tribes into an army to defeat Mongolian overlords and establish an independent Kyrgyz nation in the Northern Asian highlands. In 1992, when Kyrgyzstan was formed in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, the ethnic Kyrgyz origin story was represented by the forty rays of the sun in the center of the national flag. The Epic of Manas, telling the story of the legendary hero and his family, is over 500,000 lines long. The poem was not put into a defined written form until the 18th century. The massive poem is twenty times longer than the Iliad and Odyssey combined, and twice as long as the great Indian epic story the Mahabharata. Manas is also honored as the namesake of the international airport serving Kyrgyzstan's capital of Bishkek.

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Answer: China

Kyrgyzstan is north of India and Nepal, which border Pakistan, and Mongolia is landlocked by Russian and China. Kyrgyzstan also borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.

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Answer: Hydroelectric

Kyrgyzstan has 18 power plants to supply electricity for its residential and commercial needs. Of these power plants, 16 use hydroelectric power. The available water flow is generated by run-off from the heavy snows in the Tian Shan mountains that dominate the Kyrgyzstani landscape, and feed the country's over 40,000 rivers and streams. The hydroelectric plants supply over 12,950,000 KW per year or nearly 80% of the country's electrical needs. The largest power plants are located near the Totktogul reservoir and along the Naryn cascade. Kyrgyzstan exports over 1,000,000 KW per year to its larger, more industrialized neighbors Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, earning valuable currency for its economy. While the giant hydroelectric power plants are themselves impressive tourist attractions, the powerful water flow along the rivers makes for sensational rafting and kayaking adventures. The Naryn and Chu are particularly popular whitewater rivers and are easily accessible from Bishkek.

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Answer: Gyrfalcon

The national symbol of Kyrgyzstan, as shown on the country's coat of arms, includes a glorious gyrfalcon with its wings outstretched. The gyrfalcon in flight was adopted as the national symbol when Kyrgyzstan declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1992. The soaring bird of prey symbolizes the freedom and independence of Kyrgyzstan. Like many other cultures, the Kyrgyz people have an important association with hunting and birds of prey. Eagles, falcons and hawks have long roamed the mountain passes and fertile valleys of Kyrgyzstan. In the Kyrgyz language, the white gyrfalcon is called "Ak - Shumkar" and is also the name of a leading political party. Gyrfalcons are a species of the genus falco, which is a form of the Latin word for sickle. The name is said to relate to similarity of the falcon's wings to a sickle cutting the air. Gyrfalcons roam high mountain areas and are common in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The birds carry a wing-span of up to 165 cm and are deadly hunters. White gyrfalcons, as found in Kyrgyzstan, are the only predominantly white falcons in the world.

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Answer: Celestial

The Tian Shan mountain range is one of the largest mountain systems in Asia and a dominating feature of the Central Asian skyline. The name "Tian Shan" is Chinese for "celestial" or "heavenly" mountains. The 2,500 km length of the range straddles the border between China and Kyrgyzstan. At the center of the range is Jengish Chokusu, which at 7,440 meters is the tallest mountain in Kyrgyzstan. The rugged and almost inaccessible peak was not discovered or climbed until the 1930s and is considered the most northerly rock with a peak above 7,000 meters. The Kyrgyzstani mountains are still growing and exhibit significant glaciation. As such, the physical terrain of the area contains mostly uplifted peaks and deep valleys. Only about seven percent of the available land is considered arable and suitable for large-scale agriculture.

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Answer: Exclave

An exclave of a country is a territory of a country with which the territory does not physically border. An enclave, on the other hand, is any territory whose geographical borders lie entirely within another country. The city of Barak, Kyrgyzstan lies entirely within Uzbekistan, a couple of kilometers away from the border. Therefore, Barak is an exclave of Kyrgyzstan and an enclave of Uzbekistan.

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Answer: China

Kyrgyzstan has considerable resources in minerals and valuable rare earth metals. Most of the known mineral deposits are in the southwest portion of the country. In these mines, you find large amounts of mercury ore, antimony, lead, zinc and gold. During the Soviet period, the Kyrgyzstan mercury mines were a major producer of metallic mercury for Soviet industry. Despite the decline in its worldwide usage, mercury remains an important export commodity for Kyrgyzstan. Approximately six percent of the world's mercury is mined from Kyrgyzstani sources. Today, nearly all of the mercury is sold to China. Antimony, used in flame retardants, cosmetics, ceramics and certain medicines is also an important export mineral. The Tian Shan Mountain area has also produced mineable deposits of gold, tungsten, molybdenum, indium, and other rare earth metals. Kyrgyzstan's gold deposits are amongst the world's largest and account for over ten percent of the country's export revenue.

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Answer: Himalayas

Mountains cover 80% of Kyrgyzstan, and 90% of the country lies 1500 meters above sea level. The Alai Mountains are a part of the Tian Shans and cut through the southwestern part of the country; the main part of the range is farther east. The Pamirs are farther south and run in southern Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. The Himalayas, however, do not enter Kyrgyzstan: they run through Nepal, India, and China, which are farther southeast.

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Answer: Walnut

Arslanbob is well-known for its scenic beauty. During the summer, visitors come from all over the world to visit the site's beautiful waterfalls and forests. A moderate temperature allows an extremely large diversity of walnut trees to grow in the area.

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Answer: Osh

Suleiman's (Solomon's) Throne is a rock outcropping that dominates the skyline of Osh. Osh has a population of over 250,000 people, making it the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan. Osh has existed for over 3,000 years and survived Mongol hoards, Turks, Uzbeks and Russian occupations. Osh is the capital of Osh Province and is very close to the Uzbekistan border. The Osh region is the historic birthplace of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire. Kyrgyzstan is a predominately Sunni Muslim country of 6,000,000 people supporting over 1600 mosques. Solomon's Throne is considered a holy site because the Prophet Mohammed, allegedly, rested and prayed their during his travels along the trade route. The rocks are said to resemble the image of a pregnant woman. As such, the shrine has earned the reputation as a place for woman desiring to become pregnant should visit to offer prayers.

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Answer: Cotton

Central Asia is one of the world's largest producers of cotton- China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan are all in the top ten for most bales produced per year. However, cotton is a difficult crop to plant. It requires a tremendous amount of water from the ground, and farmers constantly must spray the plant with pesticides to keep insects like the boll weevil from eating the crop. In addition, cotton drains the earth of organic nutrients very quickly, which limits production. In areas like Uzbekistan, this has caused desertification, the formation of desert from once-arable land, with devastating results.

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Answer: Frunze

Bishkek is both the capital and largest city in Kyrgyzstan with a population of around 900,000 people. Bishkek hosts the country's major international airport and largest commercial area. The city was founded in the 19th century as part of the Kyrgyz's northern defense area, but was captured by Russian forces in 1860 and thereafter served as the Russian administrative headquarters. Bishkek (alternatively Pishkek) was renamed Frunze in 1926 to honor the Russian General Mikhail Frunze. Frunze was an ethnic Russian born in Bishkek who joined the Bolshevik cause at an early age. Frunze rose in the Red Army ranks becoming friends with Lenin and later Trotsky. During the Russian civil war, Frunze commanded the southern half of the Red Army. Under his leadership, the Bolsheviks secured Central Asia when Frunze's forces defeated the White Army in both Turkey and Uzbekistan. After Lenin's death in 1924, Frunze was considered as a possible successor to the Communist Party Secretary post. However, Frunze died soon after of complications during gastrointestinal surgery. In 1992, after separating from the Soviet Union, the Kyrgyz capital city's name was changed back to Bishkek. Shevchenko (Aktau) and Stalinabad (Dushanbe) are the now removed Soviet names of cities in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

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Answer: Bishkek

Bishkek was founded in 1825 as the city of Pishpek, and its name changed to Frunze for most of the twentieth century after Bolshevik Mikhail Frunze. The city is said to be gorgeous: the Tien Shan mountains provide a spectacular backdrop landscape, and narrow irrigation canals in the city provide water to the many trees that shade the area's sweeping boulevards. Bishkek is rapidly becoming more modern: it is Kyrgyzstan's industrial and financial center as well.

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