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Balykchy
Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan · Asia
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Balykchy sits on the route: 50 minutes from Kochkor.
Balykchy is in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, with about 43,000 people. The nearest town is Kochkor, about 45 km away.
Balykchy (Kyrgyz: Балыкчы) is a town at the western end of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, at an elevation of about 1,900 metres. Its area is 38 square kilometres (15 sq mi), and its resident population was 42,875 in 2021 (both including Orto-Tokoy). A major industrial and transport centre (wool and crop processing,Read more
lake shipping, rail terminal, and road junction) during the Soviet era, it lost most of its economic base after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the closure of virtually all of its industrial facilities.
The main road from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, to China, a part of the ancient Great Silk Road, passes through Balykchy before it starts its long and arduous way across the alpine ranges of Naryn Province in central Kyrgyzstan to the Chinese border at Torugart Pass. Plans for the rail road from the Chinese border to Balykchy, where the line from Bishkek currently ends, are under discussion. Two other roads go around the north and south sides of Issyk Kul to Karakol and then around the east end of the Kungey Alatau to the far southeast of Kazakhstan.
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Balykchy is in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, about 45 km from Kochkor.
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- Population
- 42,875
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Region
- Issyk-Kul
- Timezone
- Asia/Bishkek
- Coordinates
- 42.4602, 76.1871
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