Karakol (Kyrgyz: Каракол), formerly Przhevalsk, is the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, near the eastern tip of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, about from the Kyrgyzstan-China border and from the capital Bishkek. It is the administrative capital of Issyk-Kul Province. To the north, on highway A363, is Tyup and to the southwest Jeti-Ögüz resort.

Karaköl (; ; alternatively transcribed as Kara-Kul', Kara-Kel', or Kara-Köl) is a city in Jalal-Abad Region of Kyrgyzstan. Population 18,843 (2009).