Batken Province (Kyrgyz: Баткен областы, Batken oblast; Russian: Баткенская область) is a province (oblast) of Kyrgyzstan. It’s capital is Batken.

Batken province was created on 12 October, 1999, from the westernmost section of Osh Province.[1]

The population of the province was reported as 382,400 by the census of 1999. Of them, 26.2% lived in the province’s four cities, and 73.8% in the rural areas. The majority (74.3%) of the province’s population are Kyrgyz; there are also Uzbeks (14.4%) and Tajiks (6.9%), as well as a few Russians (2.2%), Tatars (1%), and Turks (0.3%).[1]

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