The Naryn River rises in the Tien Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, flowing west through the Fergana Valley into Uzbekistan. Here it confluences with the Kara Darya River to form the Syr Darya. It is 807km long and has an annual flow of 13.7 cubic km. The river contains many reservoirs which are important in the generation of hydro-electricity. The largest of these is the Toktogul reservoir containing 19.9 cubic kilometers of water. The Tian Shan (Chinese: 天山; Pinyin: Tiān Shān; celestial mountains) mountain range is located in Central Asia, in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of western China. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Fergana Valley (also Ferghana Valley) is a region of Central Asia spreading across Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. ... A confluence is the merger or meeting of two or more objects (or subjects) that seem to inseparably bind their respective forces or attributes into a point of junction. ... Syr Darya (also known as Syrdarya or Sirdaryo) is a river in Central Asia. ... The Murray River in Australia. ... Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ... Toktogul is a town in the Jalal-Abad region of Kyrgyzstan. ...
Naryn is the provincial administrative center of the Naryn Oblasty in central Kyrgyzstan, with a population of 40,049 (1999).
It is located at 41°26′ N 76°0′ E, situated on both banks of the NarynRiver, one of the main head waters of the Syr Darya, which cuts a picturesque gorge through the town.
From Naryn, the main road (one of the branches of the ancient Silk Road) through the sparsely settled central Kyrgyz highlands leads to Torugart Pass and China.
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