Batken Region

Batken Region (Kyrgyz: Баткен областы, Batken oblast; ) is a province (oblast) o Kyrgyzstan. Its caipital is Batken. It is boondit on the east bi Osh Province, on the sooth, wast an north bi Tajikistan an on the northeast bi Uzbekistan.  The northren pairt o the province is pairt o the flat, agricultural Ferghana Valley.  The land rises soothward tae the muntains on the soothren border: the Alay Muntains in the east, an the Turkestan Range in the wast.

The population o the province wis reportit as 382,400 bi the census o 1999. O them, 26.2 per cent lived in the province's fower ceeties, an 73.8 per cent in the rural auries. The majority (74.3 per cent) o the province's population are Kyrgyz; there are also Uzbeks (14.4 per cent) an Tajiks (6.9 per cent), as well as a few Roushies (2.2 per cent), Tatars (1 per cent), an Turks (0.3 per cent).

Batken province wis created on 12 October 1999, frae the wastrenmaist section o Osh Province.Баткенская область   This wis partly in response tae the activities o the Islamic Movement for Uzbekistan (IMU), wi bases in Tajikistan.  In 1999 they kidnapped a group o Japanese geologists an in 2000 some American climbers. In the twa years, 49 Kyrgyz sodgers wur killed. There hae been nae incidents syne, except for an attack on a Tajik border post in Mey 2006, which wis probably connectit tae drug runnin. 

Basic Socio-Economic Indicators

 Population: 428,800 (assessment for 1 Januar 2009) includin 25.2% - urban, an 74.8% - rural populationNational Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian) 
 Employed population: 157,300 (2008) National Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian) 
 Registered unemployed population: 5,499 (2008)National Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian) 
 Export: 14.7 million US dollars (2008)National Committee on Statistics (in Kyrgyz/Russian) 
 Import: 53.6 million US dollars (2008) 

Subdiveesions o Batken Province

Batken province is dividit admeenistratively intae 3 destricts::

 Destrict  Caipital LocationKadamjay Destrict  Pulgon EastBatken Destrict  Batken  CenterLeilek Destrict  Isfana Wast

There are fower touns in Batken oblast: Batken, Isfana, Kyzyl-Kiya an Sulyukta. There are five urban-type settlements, includin Chauvay, Khaidarkan, Sovetskiy, Kadamjay an Vostochny. 

References


Category:Regions o Kyrgyzstan
Category:States an territories established in 1999