Lakeside Towns
Towns and some villages around the lake, listed clockwise from the lake's western tip:
- Balykchy (the railhead at the western end of the lake)
- Koshkol'
- Tamchy
- Cholpon-Ata (the capital of the north shore)
- Karakol (the provincial capital near the eastern end of the lake)
- Tyup
- Barskon
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