East Kazakhstan Province
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East Kazakhstan (also known as Shyghys Qazaqstan) is a province of Kazakhstan. It occupies the easternmost part of Kazakhstan, along both sides of the Irtysh River and Lake Zaysan. Its capital is Öskemen (also referred to as Ust-Kamenogorsk). The province borders Russia in the north and northeast and the People's Republic of China (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region) in the south and southeast. The easternmost point of the Oblast is also very near (within 50 kilometers) or so to the westernmost tip of Mongolia; however, Kazakhstan and Mongolia don't share a common border, the two countries being separated by a small part of Russia and China.
The population of the province is 897,000; the capital's is 305,000. The area has many Russians and Ukrainians; the capital itself has more of those two groups than Kazakhs themselves. The area is 283,300 in square kilometers.
The province was created by the merger of two Soviet-era Kazakhstan oblasts, the old Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya (East Kazakhstan) Oblast and Semipalatinsk Oblast.
[edit] See also
- Semey (Semipalatinsk)
- Semipalatinsk Test Site.
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| Provinces: Almaty | Aqmola | Aqtöbe | Atyrau | East Kazakhstan | Mangghystau | North Kazakhstan | Pavlodar | Qaraghandy | Qostanay | Qyzylorda | South Kazakhstan | West Kazakhstan | Zhambyl Metropolitan Cities: Almaty | Astana | Baikonur |
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