Issyk Kul - Lakeside Towns

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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