AKIPRESS.COM - The Washington Post, The Moscow Post, and some users of Twitter made fun of a spelling error in The New York Times' January 7 article about climber Tommy Caldwell’s trip to Kyrgyzstan.

The edition mistakenly named Kyrgyzstan as “Kyrzbekistan” but later that day made a correction into the article: “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.”

Caldwell and his friends were in Kyrgyzstan in 1999. He was abducted by the gangs that invaded the territory of Batken region of Kyrgyzstan.

The Washington Post has mocked its fellow edition noting that “the dissolution of the Soviet Union some 23 years ago unleashed a bunch of new countries on the world, several ending in “stan.”

Kyrzbekistan has impressed some Twitter users too and even inspired an unknown user to create the account of the “brand-new nation.”

the Kyrzbekistanis are going to be very upset about this #NYTcorrections @nytimes #Kyrzbekistan pic.twitter.com/9p7KqmUL1D

— Alexandra Horowitz (@DogUmwelt) January 8, 2015

Thanks @nytimes for birthing me! http://t.co/E2V2o6byzK #kyrzbekistan

— Kyrzbekistan (@kyrzbekistan) January 8, 2015

We Austranians don't like Kyrzbesistanis ever since they have sided with Luxemstein in the United States Of Amigos question #Kyrzbekistan

— Martin Hovezak (@MirrorOfMirrors) January 8, 2015