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Almaty Province

Алматы облысы
Алматинская область
Coat of airms o Almaty Province
Coat airms
Map o Kazakhstan, location o Almaty Province heichlichtit
Map o Kazakhstan, location o Almaty Province heichlichtit
Coordinates: 45°0′N 78°0′E / 45.000°N 78.000°E / 45.000; 78.000
KintraKazakhstan
CaipitalTaldykorgan
Govrenment
 • AkimAnsar Musakhanov
Area
 • Total223,9 km2 (864 sq mi)
Population
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 • Total1,949,837
 • Density870/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+6 (East)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+6 (no observit)
Postal codes
040000
Aurie codes+7 (727), +7 (728)
ISO 3166 codeKZ-ALM
Vehicle registration05, B
Destricts16
Ceeties10
Tounships15
Veelages769
Websitehttp://zhetysu.gov.kz

Almaty (Kazakh: [Алматы облысы, Almatı oblısı , الماتى] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help) Roushie: Алматинская область ) is a province o Kazakhstan. Its caipital is Taldykorgan, which haes a population o 118,400. The province itsel haes 1,603,700 fowk.

Geografie

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Almaty Province is the province which surroonds the ceety o Almaty. The province borders Kyrgyzstan an Xinjiang in the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. The province touches three ither Kazakh provinces an aw: Jambyl Province tae the wast, Karagandy Province tae the northwast an East Kazakhstan Province tae the north. Almaty Province haes a aurie o 224,000 square kilometres.

Loch Balkhash (Balqash Koli in Kazakh) taks up pairt o the northwast o the province. The Trans-Ili Alatau branch o Tian Shan Muntains extend frae Cheenae an Kyrgyzstan intae Almaty Province, alang its soothren border wi Kyrgyzstan.

Charyn Canyon, Ili River, Bartogai an Kapshagay lochs, Loch Kaindy an Loch Kolsai, Loch Issyk are locatit in the province.

History

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Alma-Ata Province, the predecessor o the day's Almaty Province, wis creatit frae the historical region o Zhetysu on 10 Mairch 1932. Its caipital wis Alma-Ata (Almaty). Several times durin the Soviet period, the north-eastren pairt o the province, centred on Taldykorgan, wis separatit frae Alma-Ata Province, formin a separate Taldy-Kurgan Province, anerly tae be mergit intae Alma-Ata Province again several years later.

In Apryle 2001 the admeenistrative centre o the Almaty Province wis muivit frae Almaty tae Taldykorgan. Thus Taldykorgan haes become a provincial caipital again - this time athoot splittin a province.

Admeenistrative diveesions

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The province is admeenistratively dividit intae saxteen destricts an the ceeties o Kapchagay, Taldykorgan, an Tekeli.[3]

  1. Aksu Destrict, wi the admeenistrative centre in the dounset o Zhansugirov;
  2. Alakol Destrict, the toun o Usharal;
  3. Balkhash Destrict, the selo o Bakanas;
  4. Enbekshikazakh Destrict, the toun o Esik;
  5. Eskeldi Destrict, the dounset o Karabulak;
  6. Ile District, the dounset o Otegen Batyr;
  7. Karasay Destrict, the toun o Kaskelen;
  8. Karatal Destrict, the toun o Ushtobe;
  9. Kerbulak Destrict, the dounset o Saryozek;
  10. Koksu Destrict, the dounset o Balpyk Bi;
  11. Panfilov Destrict, the toun o Zharkent;
  12. Raiymbek Destrict, the selo o Kegen;
  13. Sarkand Destrict, the toun o Sarkand;
  14. Talgar Destrict, the toun o Talgar;
  15. Uygur Destrict, the selo o Chundzha;
  16. Zhambyl Destrict, the selo o Uzynagash.

Freemit airtins

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References

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  1. Official site - Basic Information Archived 2007-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Agency o statistics o the Republic o Kazakhstan: Численность населения Республики Казахстан по областям с начала 2013 года до 1 февраля 2013 года Archived 2019-05-11 at the Wayback Machine (russisch; Excel-Datei; 55 kB).
  3. "Регионы области" (in Russian). The official portal of akimat of Almaty Region. Archived frae the original on 23 September 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)