Aktobe (Aktyubinsk) Kazakhstan oblast

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Aktobe (Aktyubinsk) Kazakhstan oblast overview

Aktobe oblast map location

Aktobe, also spelled Aktyubinsk is region (oblast) of western Kazakhstan. Aktobe region was created in 1932. The capital city is Aktobe. The origin of name: "aktobe" from Kazakh people language means "white hill".

The greater part of Aktobe oblast is a raised plain broken by river valleys. In the center of the region are Mugodzhar Hills, and in the south the desert sands of Aral Kara-Kum and Large and Small Barsuki.

The climate of Aktobe region is continental, and precipitation is low, particularly in the south. The river network of the region is scanty. Main rivers of Aktobe oblast are Emba, Or and Ilek (both tributaries of Ural river), and Irgiz, which flows into Shalkarteniz salt marsh.

Aktobe Kazakhstan oblast population - 675,000 (2007).
Aktobe Kazakhstan oblast land area - 300,600 sq. km.

Aktobe oblast roads views

Aktobe oblast views

Aktobe oblast steppe landscape

Aktobe (Aktyubinsk) Kazakhstan oblast economy

Most of Aktobe region processing industries are concentrated in the capital - Aktobe city. Crops, chiefly grains, are grown in the northwest of Aktobe oblast, and the remaining dry steppe and desert areas are given over to sheep, horses, and camels. Nearly half of the population of Aktobe region is Kazakh, about a quarter Russian, and one sixth Ukrainian. About 50 percent of Aktobe region population is urban.

Mugodzhar Hills of Aktobe oblast have rich chromium deposits as well as nickel and copper. The chromite is mined near Khromtau, which has perhaps the largest deposit of high-grade chromium ore in the world, and the nickel at Batamshinsky.

There are large phosphorite deposits at Oktyabrsk (formerly Kandagach) in the region, but these are not exploited in the local production of fertilizers at Alga, which utilizes phosphorite imported from the Kola Peninsula. Alga is also the major Kazakhstan producer of borax, based on supplies imported from Atyrau oblast.

Aktobe region camels

Aktobe region Soviet past symbol

Aktobe region small village

Aktobe region sky view

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