Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek & the Northwest

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 and has few historical sites, but it makes a great place to start your trips to the mountains and alpine lakes of the Tien Shan mountains.
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  • Type: City with 1,320,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Kyrgyzstan
  • Also known as: “Frunze”, “Pishkek”, and “Pishpek”
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Places of Interest

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

Stadium
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Bishkek, . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 23,000 and is the home ground of the Kyrgyzstan national football team, Dordoi Bishkek, Alga Bishkek, Asiagoal Bishkek and FC Bishkek City.

University
The , formerly the Kyrgyz-American School and the American University in Kyrgyzstan, is a liberal arts university located in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Museum
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The Kyrgyz State History Museum is a museum located in Bishkek, . The museum contains literally thousands of exhibits about the cultural heritage of the Kyrgyz people, whose sculptures and objects date from antiquity to the end of the 20th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lebedinovka and Alamüdün.

Village
Photo: Абдырашит Сатылганов, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village on the outskirts of the capital Bishkek. Administratively, however, it is not part of the city, but is the center of the of , which surrounds Bishkek.

Village
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is a town and northern suburb of Bishkek in of , part of . Its population was 12,198 in 2021. It lies along the M39 highway which leads to on the Kazakh border and further to .

Village
is a village in the , of . Its population was 10,760 in 2021. It was established in 1947.

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
United Nations Location Code
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”
  • Bashkir: “Бишкәк”
  • Basque: “Bishkek”
  • Basque: “Bixkek”
  • Belarusian: “Бішкек”
  • Bengali: “বিশকেক”
  • Betawi: “Biskèk”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिश्केक”
  • Bosnian: “Bishkek”
  • Bosnian: “Biškek”
  • Breton: “Bichkek”
  • Bulgarian: “Бишкек”
  • Bulgarian: “Фрунзе”
  • Burmese: “ဘီရှကက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bixkek”
  • Cebuano: “Bishkek”
  • Central Bikol: “Bishkek”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیشکێک”
  • Chechen: “Бишкек”
  • Chinese: “Bishkek”
  • Chinese: “伏龙芝”
  • Chinese: “比什凯克”
  • Chinese: “比什凱克”
  • Chinese: “比斯凱克”
  • Chinese: “皮什别克”
  • 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”
  • Hungarian: “Bişkek”
  • Hungarian: “Frunze”
  • Hungarian: “Pispek”
  • Icelandic: “Bishkek”
  • Ido: “Bishkek”
  • Iloko: “Bishkek”
  • Indonesian: “Bishkek”
  • Interlingua: “Bishkek”
  • Interlingue: “Bishkek”
  • Irish: “Bishkek”
  • Italian: “Biškek”
  • Italian: “Bişkek”
  • Italian: “Frunze”
  • Italian: “Pišpek”
  • Japanese: “ビシュケク”
  • Javanese: “Bishkek”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಷ್ಕೆಕ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bishkek”
  • Kazakh: “Бишкек”
  • Kazakh: “Бішкек”
  • Kirghiz: “Бишкек шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Бишкек”
  • Kirghiz: “Пишпек”
  • Kirghiz: “Фрунзе”
  • Kölsch: “Bishkek”
  • Komering: “Bishkek”
  • Komi: “Бишкек”
  • Kongo: “Biskek”
  • Korean: “비슈께크”
  • Korean: “비슈케크”
  • Korean: “프룬제”
  • 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”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bişkek”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bishkek”
  • Macedonian: “Бишкек”
  • 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: “Bishkek”
  • Portuguese: “Bisqueque”
  • Pushto: “بشکک”
  • Pushto: “بشکیک”
  • Romanian: “Bișkek”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бишкек”
  • Russian: “Бишкек”
  • Russian: “Фрунзе”
  • 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”
  • Slovenian: “Frunze”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیشکک”
  • Spanish: “Biskek”
  • Swahili: “Bishkek”
  • Swedish: “Bisjkek”
  • Swedish: “Frunze”
  • Tagalog: “Bishkek”
  • Tagalog: “Biskek”
  • Tajik: “Бишкек”
  • Talysh: “Biškek”
  • Talysh: “Bişkek”
  • Tamil: “பிசுக்கெக்”
  • Tamil: “பிஷ்கெக்”
  • Tamil: “பிஸ்கெக்”
  • 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”
  • Ukrainian: “Пишпек”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Biškek”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Frunze”
  • Urdu: “بشکیک”
  • Uzbek: “Bishkek”
  • Uzbek: “Қирғизистон пойтахти”
  • 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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