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Kyrgyzstan

QINHUANGDAO, CHINA - MAY 14: Antonina Shevchenko (Red) of Kyrgyzstan fights against Tomoko Kugimiya (Blue) of Japan in the Women's 60kg preliminary match during the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships on May 14, 2012 in Qinhuangdao, China. The AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships 2012 which is a London Olympic Games Qualifying Event will be held from May 11 to 19.

About Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz and Russian: Киргизия, variously transliterated, also Kirgizia or Kirghizia), officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it borders Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. Kyrgyzstan means the "Land of the Kyrgyz". According to July 2005 estimates, the population was 5,264,000, the large majority (76.1 percent) being Muslims.

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