Central Asia
Kyrgyzstan
Ferghana Valley

Osh

Osh is a city in the of . Osh is a lively place, with the largest and most crowded outdoor market in all of Central Asia, now called the Great Silk Road Bazar. The city is at least 3,000 years old.
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  • Type: City with 474,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kyrgyzstan
  • Also known as: “Oš”, “Us”, “Uš”, and “Ush”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Osh State Academic Uzbek Music and Drama Theater named after Babur and National Historical and Archaeological Museum Complex Sulayman.

Theater building
Photo: Arthoum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
– Osh city theatre, the oldest professional theater in , the second oldest theater in .

Museum
Photo: Dave Proffer, CC BY 2.0.
The is a museum in Osh, . It was established in 1949 as Osh Regional Museum. The present museum building was completed during the Soviet era in 1978 to celebrate the 3,000th anniversary of the city of Osh.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain and Uchar.

Locality
Photo: Nefesh03, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sulayman Mountain is the only World Heritage Site located entirely in the country of . It is located in the city of Osh and was once a major place of pre-Muslim pilgrimage.

Village
is a village in of . It is part of the Kara-Suu District. Its population was 4,651 in 2021.

Osh

Latitude
40.5173° or 40° 31′ 2″ north
Longitude
72.805° or 72° 48′ 18″ east
Population
474,000
Elevation
988 metres (3,241 feet)
IATA airport code
OSS
United Nations Location Code
KG OSS
Open location code
8JGJGR83+WX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4791369250
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1527534
Wiki­data ID
Q47282
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yakut—“Osh” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Osh”
  • Albanian: “Osh”
  • Arabic: “أوش”
  • Arabic: “اوش”
  • Armenian: “Օշ”
  • Asturian: “Osh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oş”
  • Bashkir: “Ош”
  • Bashkir: “Уш”
  • Basque: “Ox”
  • Belarusian: “Ош”
  • Bengali: “ওশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ош”
  • Catalan: “Oix”
  • Catalan: “Osh”
  • Cebuano: “Osh (kapital sa lalawigan sa Kirgistan)”
  • Cebuano: “Osh”
  • Chechen: “Ош”
  • Chinese: “奥什”
  • Chinese: “奧什”
  • Chinese: “貳師城”
  • Chinese: “贰师”
  • Chuvash: “Ош”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Oş”
  • Croatian: “Oš”
  • Czech: “Oš”
  • Danish: “Osh”
  • Danish: “Osj”
  • Dutch: “Oš”
  • Dutch: “Osj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوش”
  • Esperanto: “Oŝ”
  • Esperanto: “Oŝo”
  • Estonian: “Oš”
  • Finnish: “Oš”
  • Finnish: “Osh”
  • French: “Och”
  • French: “Osh”
  • French: “Uch”
  • French: “Ush”
  • Galician: “Osh”
  • Georgian: “ოში”
  • German: “Osch”
  • Greek: “Ος”
  • Gujarati: “ઓશ”
  • Hebrew: “אוש”
  • Hindi: “ओश”
  • Hungarian: “Os (település)”
  • Hungarian: “Os”
  • Ido: “Osh”
  • Indonesian: “Osh”
  • Interlingue: “Osh”
  • Irish: “Osh”
  • Italian: “Oš”
  • Italian: “Osh”
  • Italian: “Uš”
  • Japanese: “オシ”
  • Japanese: “オシュ・キルギス”
  • Kannada: “ಓಶ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Osh”
  • Kazakh: “Ош”
  • Kirghiz: “Ош (шаар)”
  • Kirghiz: “Ош шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Ош”
  • Kölsch: “Osch”
  • Korean: “오쉬”
  • Korean: “오시”
  • Latvian: “Oša”
  • Lithuanian: “Ošas”
  • Lombard: “Oš”
  • Lombard: “Osh”
  • Luxembourgish: “Osch (Stad)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Osch”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Osh”
  • Malay: “Osh”
  • Malayalam: “ഓഷ്”
  • Maltese: “Osh”
  • Marathi: “ओश”
  • Mongolian: “Ош”
  • Northern Frisian: “Osch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Osj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Osj”
  • Norwegian: “Osj”
  • Ossetian: “Ош (Хъиргъиз)”
  • Ossetian: “Ош”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਸ਼”
  • Persian: “اوش”
  • Persian: “شهر اش”
  • Persian: “شهر اوش”
  • Polish: “Osz”
  • Portuguese: “Osh”
  • Romanian: “Oș”
  • Romanian: “Osh”
  • Romanian: “Ush”
  • Russian: “Ош (город, Киргизия)”
  • Russian: “Ош”
  • Russian: “Южная столица”
  • Sardinian: “Osh”
  • Scots: “Osh”
  • Scots: “Ош”
  • Serbian: “Ош”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oš”
  • Sinhala: “ඔෂ්”
  • Slovak: “Oš”
  • Slovenian: “Oš”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوش”
  • Spanish: “Osh”
  • Swedish: “Osch”
  • Swedish: “Osh”
  • Swedish: “Osj”
  • Tagalog: “Osh”
  • Tajik: “Ош”
  • Tajik: “Уш”
  • Tajik: “Ӯш”
  • Tamil: “உஷ்”
  • Tamil: “ஓஷ் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Ош”
  • Tatar: “Уш”
  • Telugu: “ఓష్”
  • Thai: “Osh”
  • Thai: “ออช”
  • Thai: “โอช”
  • Turkish: “Oş”
  • Turkish: “Osh”
  • Turkmen: “Oş”
  • Uighur: “ئوش”
  • Ukrainian: “Ош”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Oš”
  • Urdu: “اوش”
  • Uzbek: “O‘sh”
  • Uzbek: “Oʻsh”
  • Venetian: “Oš”
  • Veps: “Oš”
  • Vietnamese: “Osh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Osh”
  • Welsh: “Osh, Kyrgyzstan”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥什”
  • Yakut: “Ош (куорат, Кыргыстаан)”
  • Yakut: “Ош”

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