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World Nomad Games, held to revive and preserve traditional culture is the most important international projectof Kyrgyzstan. Its objectives include developing ethnosports and ethnosports culture, which are consideredcivilization heritages, to preserve the local diversity and authenticity, and to establish more transparent andopen channels of dialogue between communities.World Nomad Games takes place every two years since 2014. The first event was attended by 583 athletes in10 sports from 19 countries. Participation in the event increased in 2016 and 1200 athletes from 62 countriescompeted in 26 ethnosports. In 2018, over 3000 athletes from 37 countries from 77 countries participated inthe event focusing on Ethnosports, Ethnosport Culture and Science. All three events were widely appreciatedby local and international media and domestic and foreign visitors.After those three events hosted by Kyrgyzstan, the next stop for World Nomad Games will be Turkey in 2020.
