Samarkandek ( ky, Самаркандек, russian: Самаркандык, Samarkandyk) is a village in Batken Region of

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. ...

. It is the seat of the Samarkandek rural community ('', ayyl aymagy'') within the

Batken District Batken ( ky, Баткен району) is a district of Batken Region in south-western Kyrgyzstan. Its area is , and its resident population was 91,983 in 2021. The administrative seat lies at the city Batken, itself not part of the district. Pop ...

. Its population was 8,015 in 2021. Until 2013, the strategic road Batken-Isfana passed through Samarkandek. In 2013, ethnic conflict between enclave of

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

Vorukh Vorukh (Russian language, Russian and Tajik language, Tajik: Ворух; sog, Wārōx) is a Jamoats of Tajikistan, jamoat in northern Tajikistan. It is an exclave surrounded by Kyrgyzstan that forms part of the city of Isfara in Sughd Region. , t ...

and Samarkandyk led to mutual closing of borders. As Batken-Isfana road passed through Voruh also, government officials started to build a detouring road which would lay entirely in Kyrgyzstan borders. This latter event left Samarkandyk off the road.

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{{batken-geo-stub Populated places in Batken Region