The small Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan can’t get a break from the U.S. media, who can’t spell it or get basic facts right about it — such as its existence.
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the country whose army
chased Tommy Caldwell's kidnappers. As other references correctly noted,
Caldwell was in Kyrgyzstan, not Kyrzbekistan, which does not exist.
This is a picture of Mount Putin in Kyrgyzstan, which is an actual mountain actually named after Vladimir Putin.
REUTERS © Vladimir Pirogov / Reuters
The Times was evidently confusing Kyrgyzstan, a small, mountainous republic in former Soviet Central Asia, with Uzbekistan, its much less mountainous Western neighbor.
