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Territory in west central Asia, ruled since 1991 by the Kyrgyz Respublikasy

Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz: Кыргызстан Kyrgyzstan; Russian: Киргизия or Кыргызстан), officially the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyz: Кыргыз Республикасы, translit. Qırğız Respublikası; Russian: Кыргызская Республика, translit. Kyrgyzskaya Respublika) and also known as Kirghizia, is a country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country with mountainous terrain. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west and southwest, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east. Its capital and largest city is Bishkek.

Geographical type: Territory

Latitude: 41° N — Longitude: 75° E

Area: 199,951 km²

ISO 3166-2 code: KG

Measures of Freedom

Economic Freedom Summary Index, Economic Freedom of the World, 25 Sep 2025
2023 overall score: 6.56, rank: 88
Human Freedom Index [PDF], The Human Freedom Index 2023: A Global Measurement of Personal, Civil, and Economic Freedom
2021: 6.64, Rank: 90, Personal freedom: 6.48, Economic freedom: 6.88
Kyrgyzstan: Country Profile, Freedom in the World, 2025
Status: Not Free, Aggregate Score: 26/100, Political Rights: 4/40, Civil Liberties: 22/60
After two revolutions that ousted authoritarian presidents in 2005 and 2010, Kyrgyzstan adopted a parliamentary form of government. Governing coalitions proved unstable, however, and corruption remained pervasive. Unrest surrounding the annulled 2020 parliamentary elections led to significant political upheaval and the violent repression of opponents of nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov, who became president through a rapid series of appointments and resignations under pressure. Constitutional changes adopted in 2021 concentrated political power in the presidency ...

Articles

Democracy: The God That Failed, by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, 12 Oct 2005
Discusses the actual results from the so-called Bush Doctrine involving "democratizing" the Middle East as well as several other countries which supposedly have a "democracy deficit"
Another of the color-coded "revolutions" bought and paid for by the U.S., Kyrgyzstan's, had a very similar result ... [T]he "Pink Revolution" that engulfed Kyrgyzstan earlier this year was a thuggish affair. Mobs took over government buildings, then indulged in an orgy of looting and destruction that extended to the capital city's business community. An election in which numerous irregularities occurred was held, and the victor–former Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiyev–immediately declared that this augured the crushing of the "counterrevolutionary" elements in the country.

The introductory paragraph uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kyrgyzstan" as of 2 Oct 2018, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.