Permanent Mission
of the Kyrgyz Republic
to the United Nations Office
in Geneva

Contacts

rue du Lac 4-6
1207 Genève
Suisse

t. +41 22 707.92.20
f. +41 22 707.92.21

kyrgyzmission@bluewin.ch



Opening hours for visa
(by appointment only)

Monday - Friday
09:00 - 12:00

Visa inquieries by telephone
Monday - Friday
09:00 - 12:00







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Geography
Kyrgyzstan occupies north-eastern part of the Tien Shan and northern part of Pamir-Alay mountain systems. The state border predominantly runs along high-mountain crests, ridges and rivers occasionally going down to the plains of the Chuy, Talas and Fergana valleys.
Total length of the Kyrgyzstan state border is 4,503 km, total area is 199,951 sq.km. Kyrgyzstan stretches out its limits for 900 km west to east and 400 km north to south.

The complex mountainous terrain and diversity of ecological conditions of the country made for creation and maintenance of the broad range of soils, diversity of vegetation and animal world of Kyrgyzstan.

In the mountains, extensive deciduous and evergreen woods grow including Tien Shan spruce, walnut tree, fir tree, larch tree and juniper tree forests. High mountain valleys are rich in alpine motley grass. Kyrgyzstan has the world's largest natural-growth walnut forest.

Fauna is varied in accordance with landscape. High mountains provide a habitat for bear, lynx, wolf, badger, ermine, marten, roe deer, ibex and mountain ram. Birds can also be seen and include little bustard, bustard, eagle, vulture, hawk, falcon and such a rare to see bird as mountain turkey.

The Republic of Kyrgyzstan possesses enormous reserves of fresh water. Seven major rivers catch basins collect water from more than 28,000 rivers and natural springs. Three main rivers of Kyrgyzstan are: Naryn (nearly 535 km long), Chu (221 km) and Chatkal (205 km). There are more than 2,000 lakes and artificial reservoirs in Kyrgyzstan. Nearly 90% of them are high-mountain reservoirs or enclosed lakes.

Kyrgyzstan has hot summer, rather cold winter (particularly up in the mountains), greater contrasting seasonal and daily temperatures and very uneven distribution of atmospheric precipitations. Most hot weather is observed in the country’s south in Fergana Valley where summer temperature can easily raise up in excess of 40°C. In the country’s north in Bishkek the July temperatures are mainly below 40°C. Mean January’s temperature may drop down to -15°C (it is warmer in the valley while in the mountains it may be -28°C). Winter in the mountains is very snowy. Annual rainfall may reach 1,500 mm in the western part of the country while in the uplands of Tien Shan it is only 200-400 mm, mainly in summer.