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Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan is one of the 193 UN member states, in Central Asia. UN Tourism counted 8.5 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 75% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Foil.

Kyrgyzstan’s stamp in Globestamp
Foil · 6 to 15 million visitors a year
International arrivals
8.5 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
50th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Foilrarer than 25%
Area
199,868 km² (77,169 sq mi)
Population
6.5 millionNatural Earth estimate
Regions
8in Globestamp’s regions layer
Airports
4with scheduled flights
World Heritage Sites
1on Globestamp’s list

Does Kyrgyzstan count as a country?

Yes. Kyrgyzstan is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

ListCounts Kyrgyzstan?
UN member states (193)Yes, a member
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Kyrgyzstan
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Kyrgyzstan stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Kyrgyzstan’s is Foil: a hot-stamped foil block in the ink’s own colour, the finish for places with 6 to 15 million visitors a year. With 8.5 million international arrivals in 2019, Kyrgyzstan is more visited than 75% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Kyrgyzstan

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Kyrgyzstan when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Places in Kyrgyzstan you can collect

Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Kyrgyzstan, from 1 World Heritage Site.

World Heritage Sites 1

Sulaiman-Too (2009). On the bucket list →

Botanical gardens 1

Bishkek Botanical Garden. On the bucket list →

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
Bishkek837,000
Osh391,277
Jalal Abad248,899
Tokmak112,860
Kara Balta74,133
Karakol70,171
Naryn52,300

Airports

Kyrgyzstan has 4 airports with scheduled flights, 3 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

8 regions to fill in

Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Kyrgyzstan into 8 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.

All 8

Batken · Bishkek · Chuy · Issyk-Kul · Jalal-Abad · Naryn · Osh · Talas

Questions people ask

Is Kyrgyzstan a country?

Yes. Kyrgyzstan is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.

How many tourists visit Kyrgyzstan a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 8,508,000 international arrivals in Kyrgyzstan in 2019, the 50th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Kyrgyzstan stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Foil, the finish for places with 6 to 15 million visitors a year, rarer than 25% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Kyrgyzstan count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Kyrgyzstan”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Kyrgyzstan

Near Kyrgyzstan

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