Name: Geography Now! Kyrgyzstan
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T10:43:20.000Z
Duration: 11 min 33 s
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Let me tell you a little story: Once upon a time there were two brothers : Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan.

Basic passive voice

The older one was favored by his adoptive father, went to a university,

Got a good job, built a corporation that employed thousands of people and made billions, whereas the younger brother, was like:

Kyrgyzstan : "Hah! Nerd. I'm gonna go, like, party in the mountains or something and, like, I don't know. Party and whatever man?"

Everyone I'm your host, Barbs. If you don't know anything about Kyrgyzstan,

which I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't, basically they are, like, the party animals of Central Asia.

Dude, they love to dance, and what better way to start the party than by telling you where the party's at?

Okay, guys, seriously, I'm gonna have to ring the bell, again. Kyrgyzstan is a tripster nation,

one that few people go to, that you might want to start checking out now,

before the massive flocks of annoying tourists come in and ruin everything.

First of all, Kyrgyzstan is landlocked, located in Central Asia

Surrounded by four countries with a horrible mess of enclaves and exclaves mostly mixed in with Uzbekistan, in this area known

as the Fergana Valley. We'll talk more about this in a bit.

located in the north, and the country is divided into seven regions or Oblasts, with the two largest cities,

Bishkek and Osh, acting as independent entities with the same status as an Oblast.

Of course after those two, the third largest city is Jalal-Abad,

However Karakol is a more popular tourist destination.

The largest airports are of course also found in the largest cities Bishkek's Manas International and Osh International Airport.

Okay, now back to the enclaves/exclave thing. Basically over here you see a ton of choppy scraps of land that make no sense

because they belong to other countries within Krygyzstan.

You have the four Uzbek exclaves including the largest one, Sokh which is strange because it's a Uzbek territory

Even though it's 99% populated, by Tajiks. With Tajikistan you have Vorukh as, well as the area of Kayragach

but I think Google Earth got it wrong because they put the borders here

Which is just an empty stretch of uninhabited road.

This all happened because a number of factors. Some being because of things like:

Areas having historically inhabited people groups

And others things like, you know, (Russian accent) making Soviet Russia anything was being possible.

But, yeah, that basically covers it. I mean, the country kind of looks like a fish with deformed back fin

but, yeah, that pretty much concludes the land demarcations.

All right, there's the part we mentioned some notable places of interest. So, here we go

These petroglyphs (Cholpon Ata and Ak Sai)

And probably the most iconic national monuments: Barana Tower

which is like one of the oldest buildings in the country that still stands today

even though some of it was destroyed but it's still there.

Now the biggest appeal to Kyrgyzstan is hands down the landscape

I mean they have thousands of lakes over 400 rivers and canals

88 mountain ranges forests and almost all of it is untouched, so far.

the country is over three-quarters mountainous, with the Tian Shan Mountains making up the majority of the land

Here, you can also find the source of the longer river being The Naryn that flows westward.

But the Chu river is probably the most important, as it flows through Bishkek and empties into the largest

and most iconic fiscal landmark: Issyk-Kul Lake, the largest in the country

Issyk-Kul is the second largest saline lake after the Caspian Sea

The second largest high altitude lake after Lake Titicaca in South America

The cool thing is, the salt water in addition to hot springs causes the lake never freeze, even in winter freezing months

Just to hop away and you can find the tallest mountain: Jengish Chokusu

which is shared with China at the border.

Yeah, China kinda has this thing, where they like to take: "Share, share half of everybody highest points"

China: "Dude, that's the second time you make that joke"

The sixth largest non-polar glacier in the world, Inylchek

Like, Fairytale Canyon and The Seven Bulls Cliff

And on top of that, at over 27.000 acres, they have the worlds largest walnut forest

Speaking of which food wise, they are very so much of their brothers Kazakhstan up north

but they add a little mountain flare to the dishes, like:

Which is also a name of that people group that we study in the Ethiopia episode. Remember, Oromo people?

and Vodka, it's super cheap, is like only 4$ a bottle.

and Kyrgyzstan's wildlife is a little more diverse and unique from their cousins

They have things like the Marco Polo Sheep, the largest in the world

of course horses which they like to both meat and milk

Which by the way, milking a horses is really difficult.

Kyrgyzstan is also famous for being an insane the untapped potential candidate for green energy

In fact they make so much energy through hydroelectric dams they actually ended up exporting it to their neighbor countries.

Outside investors have been keeping their eyes on Kyrgyzstan for a while,

Investor: How many day your sunshine you have?