Shymkent (Chimkent) Kazakhstan city

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Shymkent (Chimkent) Kazakhstan city overview

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Shymkent city map location

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Shymkent (Russian spelling Chimkent), also spelled Cimkent, is a city and administrative center of South Kazakhstan region (oblast), Kazakhstan, located in the valley of Sayram River at the foothills of Ugam Range at an altitude of 1,680 feet (512 m).

Shymkent Kazakhstan city population - 540,000 (2007).
Shymkent Kazakhstan city phone code - +7-7252.
Shymkent Kazakhstan city postal code - 160000.

Shymkent city views

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Shymkent (Chimkent) Kazakhstan city history

Originally Shymkent was a settlement on the caravan route from central Asia to China. Shymkent settlement dates back at least to the 12th century and was more than once destroyed by nomad attacks.

After becoming the part of Khanate of Kokand in the early 19th century, Shymkent was captured by Russians in 1864. A pharmaceutical works was constructed in Shymkent town in 1885.

Shymkent city sceneries

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Shymkent (Chimkent) Kazakhstan city economy

Today Shymkent is the third largest city of Kazakhstan and a major industrial and cultural center, as well as an important railway junction.

Shymkent city has large lead, automatic press, and cement works, with chemical (processing phosphates from Karatau), food, and light industries.

Shymkent city streets

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Shymkent (Chimkent) Kazakhstan city main attractions

Shymkent city is a good place to stop to explore ancient cities of Otyrar, Turkestan and Sairam.

Shymkent is the city of 540,000 inhabitants with a high proportion of Kazakh population. Under Tamerlaine's reign Shymkent was the most powerful trading center of Kazakhstan, an important staging post on Great Silk Road.

Located near the border with Uzbekistan, Shymkent city still engages in trade and has a booming bazaar open from 8 am till 8 pm.

Shymkent is a good stopping place between Tashkent and Almaty also as a jumping-off point for Otrar, Turkistan, and Aksu-Zhabaghly nature reserve.

Shymkent city has teacher-training, technological, and cultural institutes, cement and Karakul-breeding research institutes, and Kazakh and Russian theatres. An old Asiatic quarter still remains in the city.