The Isfayramsay (, ) is a river in

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...

and

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. Its source is in the

Alay Range The Alay or Alai Range (; ) is a mountain range that extends from the Tien Shan mountain range in Kyrgyzstan west into Tajikistan. It is part of the Pamir-Alay mountain system. The range runs approximately east to west. Its highest summit is Pik ...

, where it is fed by many glaciers. Due to use for irrigation, it does not reach the

Syr Darya The Syr Darya ( ),; ; ; ; ; /. historically known as the Jaxartes ( , ), is a river in Central Asia. The name, which is Persian language, Persian, literally means ''Syr Sea'' or ''Syr River''. It originates in the Tian Shan, Tian Shan Mountain ...

anymore, but ends at the

Great Fergana Canal The Great Fergana Canal (, , , ) is an irrigation canal located on the Fergana Valley between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in Central Asia. The project was constructed in 1939 by 160,000 Uzbeks, Uzbek and Tajiks, Tajik (mainly uzbek) collective farm ...

north of

Fergana Fergana ( uz-Latn-Cyrl, Fargʻona, Фарғона, ), () or Ferghana, also Farghana is a district-level city and the capital of Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan. Fergana is about 320 km east of Tashkent, about 75 km southwest of A ...

. The river is long, and the

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covers . The main settlements along the river Isfayramsay are the city

Quvasoy Quvasoy (; ; ) is a city in Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan. Administratively, Quvasoy is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Sufon and 6 rural communities. The population of Quvasoy is 96,900 (2022). It has an are ...

in Uzbekistan, and the villages

Üch-Korgon Üch-Korgon ( ; ), is a large village in Batken Region of Kyrgyzstan. It is part of the Kadamjay District. With a population of 14,708 (2021), it is the largest village in the region. Under Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ...

and

Maydan Maidan is an originally Persian word for a town square or public gathering place (Persian: ), adopted by various other languages: Urdu (''maidān''); Arabic (''maydān''); Turkish ; Georgian (''moedani''); Bangla ময়দান, meaning fi ...

in Kyrgyzstan. Its largest tributaries are the Kichik-Alay, Sürmötash, Shibe and Tegermach. Its annual average flow rate is at Üch-Korgon.

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