Chui

The Chui river is the longest (1,030 km) river in Kyrgyzstan and drains the northern Kyrgyz ranges of the western Tian Shan, crossing the Chui valley near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek before leaving Kyrgyzstan and flowing into Kazakhstan. For some of its length it forms the border between Kyryzstan and Kazakhstan. Like many other rivers and streams that drain northern Kyrgyzstan, it eventually dries up in the Kazakh steppe.

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Chui oblast, the northernmost and most populous administrative region of Kyrgyzstan, is named after the river.

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Tian Shan: The Tian Shan (Chinese: 天山; Pinyin: Tiān Shān; celestial mountains), also spelled Tien Shan, is a mountain range located in Central Asia, to the north and west of the Taklamakan Desert in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of...

Bishkek: Bishkek (??????, ??????) (population in 2005 approx. 900,000), founded in 1878 and from 1926-1991 known as Frunze (??????), after the Bolshevik military leader Mikhail Frunze, is the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan). In Kyrgyz, a Bishkek is a churn used to make fermented mare's milk (kum...