Kyrgyzstan. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

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Kyrgyzstan


(keer-gi-STAHN, keer-gi-STAN) Republic in central Asia, bordered to the northwest and north by Kazakhstan, to the east and southeast by China, to the southwest by Tajikistan, and to the west by Uzbekistan. Its capital and largest city is Frunze.	1
‡ This former member of the Soviet Union declared its independence in 1991.	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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