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Osh Province
Ош областы
Capital: Osh
Area: 29,200 km²
Population: 1,299,500 (2005)
Population density: 44.5 people/km²
ISO 3166-2: KG-O
Governor: Jantoro Satybaldiyev

Osh Province (Kyrgyz: Ош областы) is a province (oblast) of Kyrgyzstan. Its capital is Osh. Image File history File links KyrgyzstanOsh. ... In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of capital) is the principal city or town associated with a countrys government. ... For the home improvement store, see Orchard Supply Hardware. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard. ... A governor or governour (archaic) is a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the Head of state; furthermore the title applies to officials with a similar mandate as representatives of a chartered... Kyrgyz or Kirghiz (Кыргыз тили) is a Northwestern Turkic language, and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. ... A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision. ... Oblast (Czech: oblast, Slovak: oblasÅ¥, Russian and Ukrainian: , Belarusian: , Bulgarian: о́бласт) refers to a subnational entity in some countries. ... For the home improvement store, see Orchard Supply Hardware. ...

Oblastlar of Kyrgyzstan
Batken | Chuy | Jalal-Abad | Naryn | Osh | Talas | Issyk Kul

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Osh: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (727 words)
Osh is the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan and is often referred to as the "capital of the south".
Osh is a lively place, with the largest and most crowded outdoor market in all of Central Asia.
Osh was known as early as the 8th century as a center for silk production along the Silk Road.
Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Pictures (275 words)
Osh, city and administrative center in southwestern Kyrgyzstan, in Osh province, on the eastern edge of the Fergana Valley near the border with Uzbekistan.
Osh is about 1290 km (about 800 mi) southwest of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, and about 45 km (about 30 mi) from Andijon, Uzbekistan.
Osh is the second largest city in Kyrgyzstan after Bishkek.
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