Kyrgyzstan-China: a 2009 treaty settled a border dispute, with Kyrgyzstan receiving the Khan Tengri Peak and Kyrgyzstan ceding to China the Uzengi-Kush area
Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan: in January 2019, Kyrgyzstan ratified the 2017 agreement on the demarcation of the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: as the last major Central Asian boundary dispute with lengthy undelimited sections, agreement on the lowland (NE part) of the Kyrgz-Tajik line remains highly sensitive despite recent Kyrgyz-Uzbek agreements on delimiting short sections of their shared border
Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan: in January 2023, the presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan exchanged instruments of ratification for the treaty delineating their shared border
stateless persons: 482 (2022)
a prime transit route and transshipment route for illegal drugs transiting north from Afghanistan to Russia and Europe; illicit drugs are primarily smuggled into the country from Tajikistan
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