Kapka-Tash

Kapka-Tash ("gate rock") is a village in the Lower Naryn District of the Irad Special Economic Zone (ISEZ), below Tash-Kömür on the road toward the border with Uzbekistan, at the mouth of a short gorge cut by a side stream of the Naryn. Its population was 1,180 (2018 census).^[1] Two rock pillars on either side of the gorge mouth give the village its name. Many residents trade or work seasonally on the Uzbek side of the border.^[2]

References

1. ^ ISEZ Statistical Office (2019). 2018 Census of Population: Settlements of the Districts. Talas.
2. ^ Eurasian Political Quarterly (2020). 'Living on the Line: Border Trade in the Lower Naryn.' Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 101–119.