The World Bank states that the Kyrgyz Republic sits at the crossroads of the large Chinese, South Asian and Russian markets, with unfettered access to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) (of which it is a member) and could thus attract significant investments from the immediate region. Mountains occupy 94% of the territory of Kyrgyzstan. The area of the country is 199 951 square kilometres (km²) the population is 6.71 million, 1.05 million of which live in the capital, Bishkek.

In the north it borders on Kazakhstan in the west, Uzbekistan in the southwest, Tajikistan and in the east and southeast, the People’s Republic of China (hereafter, “China”).

The Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked country in Central Asia, located in the western and central part of the Tien Shan mountain system and Pamir-Alai.