The Kyrgyz Republic (Member State)

[Area]

199,900 square kilometers

[Population]

6.13 million people (estimated in Dec. 2017)

[Ethnic Groups]

Kyrgyzstan is a country with about 80 ethnic groups, including Kyrgyz (72.8 percent), Uzbeks (14.5 percent), Russians (6.2 percent), Dungans (1.1 percent), Uygurs (0.9 percent), Tajiks (0.9 percent), Turkic (0.7 percent), and Kazakhs (0.6 percent).

[Official Language]

Russian, and Kyrgyz is the national language.

[Capital]

Bishkek