title: Ming-Kush
text: # Ming-Kush
  
  Ming-Kush (Kyrgyz: Миң-Куш, lit. 'a thousand birds') is a village (urban-type settlement from 1953 until 2012) in the Jumgal District of Naryn Region of Kyrgyzstan. Its population was 3,647 in 2021. It is located in the narrow Ming-Kush Valley at the right bank of the river Ming-Kush, about 45 km (28 mi) south of Chaek. It is the site of a former uranium mine.
  
  