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.
Photo: Hux, Public domain.- Type: Tower
- Description: minaret
- Also known as: “Bashnya Burana”, “Minareto di Burana”, and “برج بورانا”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burana and Don-Aryk.
Don-Aryk
Village
Döng-Aryk is a village in the Chüy District of Chüy Region of Kyrgyzstan. 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. Alga is situated 6 km northeast of Burana Tower.
Burana Tower
- Category: minaret
- Location: Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.74647° or 42° 44′ 47″ north
Longitude
75.25021° or 75° 15′ 1″ east
Elevation
938 metres (3,077 feet)
Open location code
8JJQP7W2+H3
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Burana Tower” goes by many names.
- 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: “tour Burana”
- French: “Tour Burana”
- German: “Burana-Turm”
- Hungarian: “Burana torony”
- Indonesian: “Menara 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”
- Slovenian: “Buranski stolp”
- Spanish: “Torre de Burana”
- Thai: “หอบูรานา”
- Turkish: “Burana kulesi”
- Turkish: “Burana Kulesi”
- Uighur: “بۇرانا مۇنارى”
- Ukrainian: “Вежа Бурана”
- Urdu: “بورانا ٹاور”
- Uzbek: “Burana minorasi”
- Vietnamese: “Tháp Burana”
- Western Panjabi: “بورانا ٹاور”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Oktyabr’skoye and Taldy-Bulak.
Nearby Places
Places to explore: Taldybulak and Chuyskaya Shkola Internat.
Kyrgyzstan: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Bishkek and Osh.
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