Kyrgyzstan General background

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan is a mineral-rich country situated between China and Kazakhstan. This site provides general information.

Kyrgyzstan holds first contested leadership poll Kyrgyzstan went to the polls on Sunday to elect a leader in the first contested presidential elections in this landlocked Central Asian state on China's north-western frontier.

The Kyrgyz Republic Kyrgyzstan was born on the 31st of August, 1991 as a sovereign modern democratic state. Though young in years, it has a rich heritage and cultural continuity that dates back to many thousand years of antiquity and history.