Submitted Name
Type Settlement
Scripts Бишкек (Kyrgyz, Russian)
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Meaning & History
Meaning uncertain. It could be derived from besh meaning "five" and kek meaning "chiefs", the word pishagakh meaning "place beneath the mountains" or from Kazakh besh meaning "five" and bik meaning "peaks". Bishkek is the capital city of the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan.