News Kyrgyzstan » Issyk-Kul » History: Kyrgyzstan to Return Issyk-Kul Resorts to Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan completed the work of delimiting their border in January 2023. While it’s now clear exactly where one country’s territory ends and the other’s begins, other disputes about ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Issyk-Kul » History: Along Kyrgyzstan's Campaign Trail: Issyk-Kul
"There is no way to pass all these cars," my driver, Daniyar, says as we slowly make our way along the southern road of Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan's giant lake in the northeastern corner of the country. I ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Issyk-Kul » History: Taking In The Sights In Kyrgyzstan's Karakol
The city of Karakol lies near the eastern end of Kyrgyzstan's immense lake and premier tourist site, Issyk-Kul. Heading east across Kyrgyzstan, it is the last city (population 67,000) before the ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Issyk-Kul » History: The Mountain Lake Of Issyk-Kul In Kyrgyzstan
Issyk-Kul Lake in the central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan is surrounded by the snow-capped Tian Shen mountains. It is the second-largest mountain lake in the world behind Lake Titicaca in South America ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Issyk-Kul » History: Scenery of southern shore of Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan
An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 21, 2025 shows the scenery of the southern shore of Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan. Issyk-Kul Lake, located in the northeastern part of Kyrgyzstan, covers an area of ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Issyk-Kul » History: The Eye of Issyk Kul
Kyrgyzstan is wedged in the mountainous wrinkles between Kazakhstan and China, created long ago when the land mass we now call India, propelled by plate tectonics, slammed into the Asian plate. Living ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Issyk-Kul » History: Kyrgyzstan: Property Rights Struggles Muddy Issyk-Kul's Waters
Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul, with its dazzlingly clear, sapphire-blue waters, is one of Central Asia’s prime tourist areas. But for the Central Asian nation’s movers and shakers, Issyk-Kul isn’t just ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Issyk-Kul » History: Kyrgyzstan: Slow-motion Oil Spill Threatens Issyk-Kul
A slow-motion ecological calamity is unfolding at Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. An underground plume of refined oil products – the result of a spill back in the 1990s – is migrating toward the lake ...
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