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  1. Constituent republic of the USSR from 1936,
  2. part of Soviet Central Asia. area 198,500 sq
  3. km/76,641 sq mi capital Frunze physical
  4. mountainous, an extension of the Tian Shan
  5. range products cereals, sugar, cotton, coal,
  6. oil, sheep, yaks, horses population (1987)
  7. 4,143,000; 48% Kirghiz of Mongol-Tatar origin
  8. (and related to the Kazakhs), 26% Russian,
  9. 12% Uzbek, 3% Ukrainian, 2% Tatar language
  10. Kirghiz religion Sunni Islam history annexed
  11. by Russia 1864, it was part of an independent
  12. Turkestan republic from 1917 to 1924, when it
  13. was reincorporated in the USSR.
  14.