Atyrau Region

Atyrau Oblast Атырау облысы Атырауская область
Coordinates: 47°07′0″N 51°53′0″E
Kintra	Kazakhstan
Caipital	Atyrau
Govrenment
• Akim (govrenor)	Bergey Ryskaliev
Area
• Total	118600 km2 (45,800 sq mi)
Population  (2006)
• Total	479,984
• Density	4.0/km2 (10/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+5
Area code(s)	+7 (712)
ISO 3166-2	ATY
Licence plate	E
Destricts	7
Ceeties (inc touns)	2
Tounships	10
Veelages	188
Website	e-atyrau.kz

Atyrau Oblast (Kazakh: [Атырау облысы, Atıraw oblısı] ) is a province o Kazakhstan. It is situatit in the wast o the kintra aroond the northeast o the Caspian Sea. Its caipital is the ceety o Atyrau, wi a population o 142,500 fowk; the province itsel haes 480,000 fowk. Kazakhs mak up mair nor 80% o population.

Geography

Wi an aurie o 118,600 square kilometers, it is the seicont-smawest province in Kazakhstan (Sooth Kazakhstan Province is the smawest). It borders the neighborin kintra Roushie tae the west, as well as the fellae Kazakh provinces Aktobe (tae the east), Mangystau (tae the sooth), an the Wast Kazakhstan Province (tae the north).

A lairge pairt o the province is situatit in the ile-rich Caspian Depression; acause o this, mony ile wells hae been drilled in the Tengiz Field an Kashagan Field auries. An pipeline runs frae Atyrau tae Samara, where it joins the Roushie pipeline seestem. A separate ile pipeline runs frae the Tengiz field tae the Roushie Black Sea port o Novorossiisk.

Atyrau is traversed bi the northeasterly line o equal latitude an langitude.

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid Archived 2011-12-28 at the Wayback Machine

References

• National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition.