Balykchy
Balykchy is a city of 51,000 people at Issyk Kul. It was the center of the lake's fishing fleet, but has suffered a major decline since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It now only on the path to the tourist sites of the lake, but largely by-passed.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 51,300 residents
- Description: city in Kyrgyzstan
- Also known as: “Balıkçı şehri”, “Balıkçı, kırgızistan”, “Balykčai”, “Balykčis”, “Balykshy”, “Issuk-Kul”, “Issyk-kul (miasto)”, “Issyk-Kul’”, “Ketmaldy”, “Rybach’e”, “Rybach’ye”, “Rybačje”, “Rybačjė”, “Rybaczje”, “Rybatje”, “Ysyk-Köl”, “Балйкчй”, “Иссык-Куль”, “バリクチ”, and “库特马尔迪”
Balykchy
- Category: locality
- Location: Issyk Kul and the Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
42.4571° or 42° 27′ 25″ north
Longitude
76.1962° or 76° 11′ 47″ east
Population
51,300
Elevation
1,641 metres (5,384 feet)
UN/LOCODE
KG BYK
Open location code
8JJRF54W+RF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Balykchy” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باليكتشي”
- Asturian: “Balykchy”
- Belarusian: “Балыкчы”
- Bulgarian: “Баликчи”
- Bulgarian: “Балъкчъ”
- Cebuano: “Balykchy”
- Central Kurdish: “بالقچی”
- Chechen: “Балыкчи”
- Chinese: “巴雷克奇”
- Czech: “Balykčy”
- Dutch: “Balykchy”
- Dutch: “Balyktsjy”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باليكتشى”
- Esperanto: “Balikĉi”
- Estonian: “Balõktšõ”
- Finnish: “Balyktšy”
- French: “Balyktchy”
- Galician: “Baliksi”
- German: “Balyktschy”
- Greek: “Μπαλικτσί”
- Hindi: “बालीक्ची”
- Hungarian: “Balikcsi”
- Italian: “Balykčy”
- Japanese: “バルイクチ”
- Kazakh: “Балықшы”
- Kirghiz: “Balykchy”
- Kirghiz: “Балыкчы шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Балыкчы”
- Korean: “발릭치”
- Latin: “Balykcy”
- Latin: “Thalasseupolis”
- Lithuanian: “Balykči”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Balykchy”
- Moksha: “Балыкчы”
- Mongolian: “Балагч”
- Mongolian: “Балыкч”
- Northern Frisian: “Balyktschy”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balyktsjy”
- Norwegian: “Balyktsjy”
- Ossetian: “Балыкчы”
- Persian: “بالیقچی”
- Persian: “بالیکچی”
- Polish: “Bałykczy”
- Portuguese: “Balykchy”
- Russian: “Балыкчи”
- Russian: “Балыкчы”
- Russian: “Рыбачье”
- Scots: “Balykchy”
- Slovenian: “Balikči”
- Spanish: “Balikci”
- Swedish: “Balyktjy”
- Tajik: “Балиқчӣ”
- Tatar: “Балыкчы”
- Turkish: “Balıkçı, Kırgızistan”
- Turkish: “Balıkçı”
- Ukrainian: “Баликчи”
- Ukrainian: “Баликчі”
- Upper Sorbian: “Balykčy”
- Urdu: “بالیقچی”
- Vietnamese: “Balykchy”
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