Country Kyrgyzstan Time zone East (UTC+6) Districts 8 Area 28,934 km² | Capital Osh ISO 3166 code KG-O Cities 3 Population 999,576 (1 Jan 2009) | |
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Colleges and Universities Osh State University, Osh Technological University Clubs and Teams FC Ak-Bura Osh, FC Kelechek Osh Points of interest Sulayman Mountain, парк Мээрим, Taldyk Pass, Irkeshtam | ||
Alay district osh region kyrgyzstan
Osh Region (Kyrgyz: Ош облусу, Oş oblusu/Osh oblusu, وش وبلاستى; Russian: Ошская область, Oshskaya oblast’/Ošskaja oblastj) is a region (oblast) of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Osh. It is bounded by (clockwise) Jalal-Abad Region, Naryn Region, Xinjiang, China, Tajikistan, Batken Region, and Uzbekistan.
Contents
- Alay district osh region kyrgyzstan
- Map of Osh Region Kyrgyzstan
- Geography
- Demographics
- Ethnic composition
- Districts
- Enclaves and exclaves
- References
Map of Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan
Geography
Most of the population lives in the flat northern part of the Oblast, on the edge of the Ferghana Valley. The land gradually rises southward to the crest of the Alay Mountains, drops into the Alay Valley and rises to the Trans-Alai Range which forms the border with Tajikistan. In the east, the land rises to the Ferghana Range which is roughly parallel to the Naryn border. This area is drained by the Kara Darya which flows northwest to join the Naryn River to form the Syr Darya in the Ferghana Valley.
Highway M41 goes south over the mountains from Osh to the Tajik border. At Sary-Tash a branch goes east to the Chinese border crossing at Irkeshtam. The other main road goes west through the flat country to Batken Region.
Demographics
As of 2009, Osh Region (excluding Osh) comprised 3 towns (Nookat, Uzgen, and Kara-Suu), 2 urban-type settlement and 474 villages. Its de facto population, according to the Population and Housing Census of 2009, was 999,576. Of them, 82,841 people live in urban areas, and 916,735 in rural ones.
More than half of all Kyrgyzstan's Uzbeks live in Osh Region. They are 33% of the regional population as opposed to 14,5% in Kyrgyzstan as a whole.
Ethnic composition
According to the 2009 Census, the ethnic composition of the Osh Region (de jure population) was:
Districts
Osh Region is divided administratively into 7 districts (listed counter-clockwise):
Enclaves and exclaves
Kyrgyzstan's only exclave within Uzbekistan is administratively part of Osh Region (Kara-Suu District). This is the tiny village of Barak (population 627) in the Fergana valley, located on the road from Osh (Kyrgyzstan) to Khodjaabad (Uzbekistan) about 4 km north-west from the Kyrgyz–Uzbek border in the direction of Andijan.