Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan
Issyk Kul & the Tian Shan

Karakol

Karakol, formerly Przhevalsk, is the fourth-largest city in , near the eastern tip of , about 150 kilometres from the Kyrgyzstan–China border and 380 kilometres from the capital .
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  • Type: City with 84,300 residents
  • Description: city in Kyrgyzstan
  • Also known as: “Prjeval’sk” and “Przheval’sk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Karakol International Airport.

Aerodrome
is an international serving Karakol, the capital of Issyk-Kul Province of . The Russian IATA code for is КПЖ.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chelpek.

Village
Photo: Kmaksat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Karakol

Latitude
42.4917° or 42° 29′ 30″ north
Longitude
78.3969° or 78° 23′ 49″ east
Population
84,300
Elevation
1,770 metres (5,807 feet)
IATA airport code
IKG
Open location code
8JJWF9RW+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254467298
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1528121
Wiki­data ID
Q194452
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Karakol” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Karakol”
  • Arabic: “قاراقول”
  • Arabic: “قرة قول”
  • Arabic: “كاراكول”
  • Armenian: “Կարա-Կոլ”
  • Asturian: “Karakol”
  • Awadhi: “काराकोल”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karakol”
  • Azerbaijani: “Prjevalsk”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡараҡул”
  • Basque: “Karakol”
  • Belarusian: “Каракол”
  • Belarusian: “Пржавальск”
  • Bengali: “কারাকোল”
  • Bulgarian: “Каракол”
  • Bulgarian: “Каракул”
  • Catalan: “Karakol”
  • Catalan: “Karàkol”
  • Cebuano: “Karakol (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Karakol”
  • Central Kurdish: “قاراقۆل”
  • Chechen: “Каракол”
  • Chinese: “卡拉科尔”
  • Chinese: “卡拉科爾”
  • Croatian: “Karakol”
  • Czech: “Karakol”
  • Danish: “Karakol”
  • Dutch: “Karakol”
  • Dutch: “Przjevalsk”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاراكول”
  • Esperanto: “Karakol”
  • Estonian: “Karakol”
  • Estonian: “Prževalsk”
  • Finnish: “Karakol”
  • Finnish: “Karakul”
  • French: “Karakol”
  • French: “Prjevalsk”
  • French: “Przhevalsk”
  • Galician: “Karakol”
  • Galician: “Krakol”
  • Georgian: “ყარაქოლი”
  • German: “Karakol”
  • German: “Prschewalsk”
  • Greek: “Καρακόλ”
  • Gujarati: “કારકોલ”
  • Hebrew: “קארקול”
  • Hindi: “काराकोल”
  • Hungarian: “Karakol”
  • Indonesian: “Karakol”
  • Italian: “Karakol”
  • Italian: “Prževal’sk”
  • Japanese: “カラコル”
  • Kannada: “ಕರಾಕೋಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qarakól”
  • Kazakh: “Qaraqol”
  • Kazakh: “Қарақол қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Қарақол”
  • Kazakh: “قاراقول”
  • Kirghiz: “Karakol”
  • Kirghiz: “Каракол шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Каракол”
  • Kölsch: “Karakol”
  • Korean: “카라콜”
  • Latin: “Karakol”
  • Latin: “Melanochiropolis”
  • Latvian: “Karakola”
  • Lithuanian: “Karakolas”
  • Lithuanian: “Prževalskis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Karakol”
  • Macedonian: “Каракол”
  • Malay: “Karakol”
  • Marathi: “करकोल”
  • Moksha: “Каракол”
  • Mongolian: “Харгол”
  • Northern Frisian: “Karakol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karakol”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karakol”
  • Norwegian: “Karakol”
  • Ossetian: “Каракол”
  • Persian: “قاراقول، قرقیزستان”
  • Persian: “قاراقول”
  • Persian: “قراکول، قرقیزستان”
  • Persian: “قره‌قول”
  • Polish: “Karakoł”
  • Polish: “Przewalsk”
  • Portuguese: “Karakol”
  • Romanian: “Karakol”
  • Russian: “Каракол”
  • Russian: “Пржевальск” (historical)
  • Scots: “Karakol”
  • Serbian: “Каракол”
  • Sinhala: “කරකොල්”
  • Slovenian: “Karakol”
  • Slovenian: “Prževalsk”
  • Spanish: “Karakol”
  • Swedish: “Karakol (oblasthuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Karakol”
  • Tajik: “Қарокӯл”
  • Tajik: “Қароқӯл”
  • Tamil: “கரக்கோல்”
  • Tatar: “Каракол”
  • Tatar: “Каракул”
  • Telugu: “కరకోల్”
  • Thai: “Karakol”
  • Thai: “Przhevalsk”
  • Thai: “การาโกล”
  • Thai: “คาราคอล”
  • Thai: “เปอร์เซวัลสค์”
  • Turkish: “Karakol”
  • Ukrainian: “Каракол”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karakol”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Pržewalsk”
  • Urdu: “قاراقول”
  • Urdu: “کراکول”
  • Uzbek: “Qoraqoʻl”
  • Veps: “Karakol”
  • Vietnamese: “Karakol”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karakol”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاراکول”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡拉科尔 (吉尔吉斯斯坦)”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡拉科尔（吉尔吉斯斯坦）”

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