Bishkek (kgz)

Bishkek

Bishkek ranks 628th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Coburg, Newton, Massachusetts, and Okinawa Prefecture. Memorable people born in Bishkek include Mikhail Frunze, Roza Otunbayeva, and Talant Duyshebaev. Memorable people who died in Bishkek include Alykul Osmonov, Abdylas Maldybaev, and Satymkul Dzhumanazarov. Bishkek has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many writers, and athletes. Bishkek is located in Kyrgyzstan.

Bishkek, formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of the region but rather a region-level unit of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is situated near the border with Kazakhstan and has a population of 1,074,075, as of 2021. Bishkek is the primate city of Kyrgyzstan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 17% of all inhabitants of the country live in Bishkek's metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia