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Sheker () is a village in the Kara-Buura District of Talas Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 4,532 in 2021. It is the birthplace of Chinghiz Aitmatov.

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Place details

Locality
Шекер
Region
Талас облусу
Country
Кыргызстан
Population
0

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PM2.5
10.4 µg/m³
PM10
12.4 µg/m³
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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Sheker
Settlement.native_name
Шекер
Settlement.pushpin_map
Kyrgyzstan
Settlement.mapsize
200px
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Kyrgyzstan
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Talas
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Kara-Buura
Settlement.population_as_of
2021
Settlement.population_total
4532
Settlement.utc_offset
+6
Settlement.elevation_m
1167

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
village
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Population
4532
Elevation
1167
Time zone
UTC+06:00
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Sheker () is a village in the Kara-Buura District of Talas Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 4,532 in 2021. It is the birthplace of Chinghiz Aitmatov.

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sheker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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