Burana Tower
The Burana Tower is a large minaret in the Chüy Valley in northern Kyrgyzstan. It is located about 80 km east of the country's capital Bishkek, near the town of Tokmok.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hux, Public domain.
- Type: Tower
- Description: minaret
- Also known as: “Bashnya Burana”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burana and Don-Aryk.
Burana
Village
Burana is a village in the Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 772 in 2021. It is most famous for the Burana Tower and the associated ruins of Balasagun located near it.
Don-Aryk
Village
Döng-Aryk is a village in the Chüy District of Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. The village was established in 1929. Its population was 3,486 in 2021. Don-Aryk is situated 3 km west of Burana Tower.
Alga
Village
Alga is a village in the Chüy District of Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 979 in 2021. Alga is situated 6 km northeast of Burana Tower.
Burana Tower
- Category: minaret
- Location: Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Burana Tower” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برج بورانا”
- Arabic: “مئذنة بورانا”
- Armenian: “Բուրանա աշտարակ”
- Azerbaijani: “Burana qülləsi”
- Basque: “Buranako dorrea”
- Bengali: “বুরানা মিনার”
- Catalan: “Torre Burana”
- Chinese: “布拉納塔”
- Chinese: “布拉纳塔”
- Chinese: “詩歌塔”
- Croatian: “Toranj Burana”
- Czech: “Věž Burana”
- Dutch: “Burana Tower”
- Esperanto: “Turo Burana”
- French: “Burana Tower”
- French: “tour Burana”
- French: “Tour Burana”
- German: “Burana-Turm”
- Hungarian: “Burana torony”
- Indonesian: “Menara Burana”
- Italian: “Minareto di Burana”
- Italian: “torre di Burana”
- Italian: “Torre di Burana”
- Japanese: “ブラナの塔”
- Kazakh: “Бұран мұнарасы”
- Kazakh: “Бұрана мұнарасы”
- Kirghiz: “Башня Бурана”
- Kirghiz: “Бурана мунарасы”
- Lithuanian: “Buranos bokštas”
- Malay: “Menara Burana”
- Persian: “برج بورانه”
- Polish: “Wieża Burana”
- Portuguese: “Torre de Burana”
- Russian: “Башня Бурана”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Toranj Burana”
- Spanish: “Torre de Burana”
- Thai: “หอบูรานา”
- Turkish: “Burana kulesi”
- Turkish: “Burana Kulesi”
- Ukrainian: “Вежа Бурана”
- Urdu: “بورانا ٹاور”
- Uzbek: “Burana minorasi”
- Western Panjabi: “بورانا ٹاور”
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