Bishkek

Bishkek, the capital and largest city in , sits at the foothills of the Tien Shan mountain range in the Chui Valley. It is a relatively new city with few historical sites, but it makes a great place to start your trips to the mountains and alpine lakes of the Tien Shan.
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  • Type: City with 1,320,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Kyrgyzstan
  • Also known as: “Frunze”, “Pishkek”, “Pishpek”, “Pispek”, “Pišpek”, “Бишкек шаары”, “Қирғизистон пойтахти”, “Пишпек”, “Фрунзе”, “Фрунзэ”, “पिश्पेक”, “फ्रूनजे”, “பிஷ்கெக்”, “பிஸ்கெக்”, “비슈께크”, “프룬제”, “伏龙芝”, and “皮什别克”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Dolen Omurzakov Stadium and American University of Central Asia.

Stadium
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The is a multi-purpose stadium in Bishkek, .

University
The , formerly the…

Museum
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The National History Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic is a museum located in Bishkek, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alamüdün and Lebedinovka.

Village
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is a town and northern suburb of Bishkek…

Village
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is a village on the outskirts of the capital Bishkek.

Village
is a village in the , of .

Bishkek

Latitude
42.8761° or 42° 52′ 34″ north
Longitude
74.6037° or 74° 36′ 13″ east
Population
1,320,000
Elevation
767 metres (2,516 feet)
IATA airport code
FRU
UN/LOCODE
KG FRU
Open location code
8JJPVJG3+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27524177
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1528675
Wiki­data ID
Q9361
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bishkek” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bishkek”
  • Achinese: “Bishkèk”
  • Afrikaans: “Bisjkek”
  • Albanian: “Bishkek”
  • Albanian: “Bishkeku”
  • Amharic: “ቢሽኬክ”
  • Arabic: “بيشكك”
  • Aragonese: “Bishkek”
  • Armenian: “Բիշկեք”
  • Armenian: “Բիշքեկ”
  • Asturian: “Bixkek”
  • Awadhi: “बिस्केक”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bişkek”
  • Balinese: “Bishkek”
  • Bashkir: “Бешкәк”
  • Basque: “Bishkek”
  • Basque: “Bixkek”
  • Belarusian: “Бішкек”
  • Bengali: “বিশকেক”
  • Betawi: “Biskèk”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिश्केक”
  • Bosnian: “Bishkek”
  • Bosnian: “Biškek”
  • Breton: “Bichkek”
  • Bulgarian: “Бишкек”
  • Burmese: “ဘီရှကက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bixkek”
  • Cebuano: “Bishkek”
  • Central Bikol: “Bishkek”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیشکێک”
  • Chechen: “Бишкек”
  • Cherokee: “ᏈᏍᎨᎩ”
  • Chinese: “比什凯克”
  • Chinese: “比什凱克”
  • Chinese: “比斯凱克”
  • Chuvash: “Бишкек”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bişkek”
  • Croatian: “Biškek”
  • Czech: “Biškek”
  • Danish: “Bisjkek”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bişkek”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bişqeq”
  • Dutch: “Bisjkek”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бишкек”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيشكيك”
  • Erzya: “Бишкек ош”
  • Esperanto: “Biŝkeko”
  • Estonian: “Biškek”
  • Faroese: “Bisjkek”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bishkek”
  • Finnish: “Biškek”
  • French: “Bichkek”
  • Gagauz: “Bişkek”
  • Galician: “Bixkek”
  • Georgian: “ბიშკეკი”
  • German: “Bischkek”
  • Greek: “Μπισκέκ”
  • Guarani: “Biskek”
  • Gujarati: “બિશ્કેક”
  • Haitian: “Bichkek”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bishkek”
  • Hausa: “Bishkek”
  • Hebrew: “בישקק”
  • Hindi: “बिश्केक”
  • Hungarian: “Biskek”
  • Icelandic: “Bishkek”
  • Ido: “Bishkek”
  • Iloko: “Bishkek”
  • Indonesian: “Bishkek”
  • Interlingua: “Bishkek”
  • Interlingue: “Bishkek”
  • Irish: “Bishkek”
  • Italian: “Biškek”
  • Italian: “Bişkek”
  • Japanese: “ビシュケク”
  • Javanese: “Bishkek”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಷ್ಕೆಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bishkek”
  • Kashubian: “Biszkek”
  • Kazakh: “Бішкек”
  • Kirghiz: “Бишкек”
  • Kölsch: “Bishkek”
  • Komering: “Bishkek”
  • Komi: “Бишкек”
  • Kongo: “Biskek”
  • Korean: “비슈케크”
  • Kurdish: “Bîşkek”
  • Lao: “ບິສເຄກ”
  • Latin: “Biscecum”
  • Latin: “Pisphecum”
  • Latvian: “Biškeka”
  • Ligurian: “Bishkek”
  • Limburgan: “Bisjkek”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bixcec”
  • Lithuanian: “Biškekas”
  • Livvi: “Biškek”
  • Lombard: “Biškek”
  • Low German: “Bischkek”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Biškek”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bischkek”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bishkek”
  • Macedonian: “Бишкек”
  • Magahi: “बिश्केक”
  • Magahi: “बिस्केक”
  • Maithili: “विस्केक”
  • Malagasy: “Bishkek”
  • Malay: “Bishkek”
  • Malayalam: “ബിഷ്കെക്ക്”
  • Maltese: “Bishkek”
  • Marathi: “बिश्केक”
  • Mazanderani: “بيشکک”
  • Mazanderani: “بیشکک”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bishkek”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bishkek”
  • Minangkabau: “Bishkek”
  • Mingrelian: “ბიშკეკი”
  • Moksha: “Бишкек”
  • Mongolian: “Бишкек”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بيشكيك”
  • Nauru: “Bishkek”
  • Navajo: “Łeezh Bee Bineʼadziihii”
  • Nepali: “विस्केक”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bischkek”
  • Northern Luri: “بیشکک”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bisjkek”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bisjkek”
  • Norwegian: “Bisjkek”
  • Novial: “Bishkek”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Bishkek”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bishkek”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bishquec”
  • Ossetian: “Бишкек”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਿਸ਼ਕੇਕ”
  • Papiamento: “Biskek”
  • Persian: “بیشکک”
  • Piemontese: “Bishkek”
  • Polish: “Biszkek”
  • Portuguese: “Bisqueque”
  • Pushto: “بشکک”
  • Pushto: “بشکیک”
  • Romanian: “Bișkek”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бишкек”
  • Russian: “Бишкек”
  • Rusyn: “Бішкек”
  • Sardinian: “Bishkek”
  • Scots: “Bishkek”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bishkek”
  • Serbian: “Бишкек”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Biškek”
  • Shona: “Bishkek”
  • Silesian: “Biszkek”
  • Sindhi: “بشڪيڪ”
  • Sinhala: “බිෂ්කෙක්”
  • Slovak: “Biškek”
  • Slovenian: “Biškek”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیشکک”
  • Spanish: “Biskek”
  • Swahili: “Bishkek”
  • Swedish: “Bisjkek”
  • Tagalog: “Bishkek”
  • Tagalog: “Biskek”
  • Tajik: “Бишкек”
  • Talysh: “Biškek”
  • Talysh: “Bişkek”
  • Tamil: “பிசுக்கெக்”
  • Tatar: “Бишкәк”
  • Telugu: “బిశ్కెక్”
  • Telugu: “బిష్కెక్”
  • Thai: “บิชเคก”
  • Tibetan: “པི་སི་ཁེག”
  • Tibetan: “བི་སི་ཀེཀ”
  • Turkish: “Bişkek”
  • Turkmen: “Bişkek”
  • Udmurt: “Бишкек”
  • Uighur: “Bishkek”
  • Uighur: “بىشكەك”
  • Ukrainian: “Бішкек”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Biškek”
  • Urdu: “بشکیک”
  • Uzbek: “Bishkek”
  • Venetian: “Biškek”
  • Veps: “Biškek”
  • Vietnamese: “Bishkek”
  • Volapük: “Bişkek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bishkek”
  • Welsh: “Bishkek”
  • Western Frisian: “Bisjkek”
  • Western Mari: “Бишкек”
  • Western Panjabi: “بشکیک”
  • Wu Chinese: “比什凯克”
  • Yakut: “Бишкек”
  • Yiddish: “בישקעק”
  • Yoruba: “Bishkek”
  • Yue Chinese: “比什凱克”
  • Zulu: “i-Bishkek”
  • “Bixquec”
  • “बिश्केक”

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