Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked country, bordered by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Located in Central Asia between two major mountain systems, the Tien Shan and the Pamirs, 94 percent of the country is above 1,000 meters (m). The country is vulnerable to a wide variety of natural hazards, including earthquakes, droughts, land and mudslides, flash floods, and glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs).
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