Batken Province (Kyrgyz: Баткен областы, Batken oblast; Russian: Баткенская область) is a province (oblast) of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Batken. It is bounded on the east by Osh Province, on the south, west and north by Tajikistan and on the northeast by Uzbekistan. The northern part of the province is part of the flat, agricultural Ferghana Valley. The land rises southward to the mountains on the southern border: Alay Mountains in the east and ...
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Batken Province (Kyrgyz: Баткен областы, Batken oblast; Russian: Баткенская область) is a province (oblast) of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Batken. It is bounded on the east by Osh Province, on the south, west and north by Tajikistan and on the northeast by Uzbekistan. The northern part of the province is part of the flat, agricultural Ferghana Valley. The land rises southward to the mountains on the southern border: Alay Mountains in the east and Turkestan Range in the west.
The population of the province was reported as 382,400 by the census of 1999. Of them, 26.2% lived in the province's four cities, and 73.8% in the rural areas. The majority (74.3%) of the province's population are Kyrgyz; there are also Uzbeks (14.4%) and Tajiks (6.9%), as well as a few Russians (2.2%), Tatars (1%), and Turks (0.3%).
Batken province was created on 12 October, 1999, from the westernmost section of Osh Province.. This was partly in response to the activities of some Uzbek militants (IMU, Islamic...
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