Key facts
- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Region
- Chüy
- District
- Ysyk-Ata
- Elevation
- 743 m (2,437 ft)
- Total
- 22,617
- Time zone
- UTC+6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Named after
- sugar
- Official name
- Кант
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Official language
- Kyrgyz
- Population
- 23249
- Area
- 7.86
- Elevation
- 742
- Time zone
- UTC+06:00
- Image
- E7988-Kant-main-street.jpg
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- P12749
- Birger Kildal
- Commons category
- Kant, Kyrgyzstan
- twinned administrative body
- Vidnoye
- inception
- 1934-00-00
- native label
- Кант
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Encyclopedic overview
Kant (Kyrgyz: Кант) is a town in the Chüy Valley of northern Kyrgyzstan, some 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Bishkek. It is the administrative center of the Ysyk-Ata District (formerly Kant District). Its population was 22,617 in 2021. Kant was established in 1928.
The Kyrgyz word for sugar is "kant", and the city received its name when a sugar plant was built there in the 1930s (it is an often repeated myth that the town was named after the German philosopher Immanuel Kant).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.