Osh Province (Kyrgyz: Ош областы) is a province (oblasty) of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Osh. In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ... ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ... A governor is an official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit. ... Categories: Language stubs | Languages of China | Languages of Kyrgyzstan | Turkic languages ... Province is a name for a secondary, or subnational entity of government in most countries. ... An oblast (Russian, Ukrainian: о́бласть) is a name for the subnational entity of Bulgaria, Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the former Soviet Union. ... Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz: Кыргызстан) is a country in Central Asia. ...
In the period betweem the 10th and the 12th centuries it was the third city of the Ferghana Valley, and in 1762 it joined the Khanate of Kokand and became on of the six trading centres with the Khanate.
The city is the administrative center of the Oshoblast, at the head of the Ferghana valley and lies close to the border with Uzbekistan.
Osh is definitely a town where you could walk around for hours, without too much of sightseeing, but just to get to know the culture and try to feel it yourself.
Osh is the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan and is often referred to as the "capital of the south".
The oblast's best-known and most popular governor during Soviet times was Sultan Ibraimov, who subsequently became Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kyrgyz SSR before being assassinated in 1980.
Osh is a lively place, with the largest and most crowded outdoor market in all of Central Asia.