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Kyrgyzstan (, "Qrgzstan", , (); , "Kirgizija"), officially the Kyrgyz Republic (, "Qrgz Respublikas", ; "Kyrgyzskaja Respublika"), formerly known as Kirghizia or Kirgizia, 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.

Kyrgyzstan's recorded history spans over 2,000 years, encompassing a variety of cultures and empires. Although geographically isolated by its highly mountainous terrain, which has helped preserve its ancient culture, Kyrgyzstan has been at the crossroads of several great civilizations as part of the Silk Road and other commercial and cultural routes. Though long inhabited by a succession of independent tribes and clans, Kyrgyzstan has periodically fallen under foreign domination and attained sovereignty as a nation-state only after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Since independence, Kyrgyzstan has officially been a unitary parliamentary republic, although it continues to endure ethnic conflicts, revolts, economic troubles, transitional governments and political conflict. Kyrgyzstan is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Turkic Council, the TURKSOY community and the United Nations.

1. How long is Kyrgyzstan's documented history?
2. What is it officially?
3. What is it formerly known as?
4. Where is it located?
5. Is it landlocked?
6. With what type of terrain?
7. What is it bordered by in the north?
8. What is to the west?
9. What direction is China to it?
10. What is it's capital?
11. Is that also the largest city?
12. What type of republic is it?
13. What is it a member of?
14. What else?
15. What has helped preserve it's ancient culture?
16. Has it ever fallen under foreign domination?
17. When did it attain sovereignty as a nation-state?
18. After what?
19. What types of things does it still endure?
20. What has it been at the crossroads of?
1. over 2,000 years
2. the Kyrgyz Republic
3. Kirghizia or Kirgizia
4. in Central Asia
5. yes
6. mountainous terrain
7. Kazakhstan
8. Uzbekistan
9. the southwest
10. Bishkek
11. yes
12. a unitary parliamentary republic
13. the Commonwealth of Independent States,
14. the Eurasian Economic Union, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Turkic Council, the TURKSOY community and the United Nation
15. its highly mountainous terrain,
16. yes
17. in 1991
18. after the breakup of the Soviet Union
19. ethnic conflicts, revolts, economic troubles, transitional governments and political conflic
20. several great civilizations as part of the Silk Road