Aktobe Region
Aktobe (Kazakh: [Ақтөбе облысы, Aqtöbe oblısı, اقتوبە وبلىسى] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) is a province o Kazakhstan. The Aktobe provincial caipital is the ceety o Aktobe, wi a population o mair nor 340,000. The province itsel haes a population 678,900. The aurie o the province is 300,600 square kilometers, makkin it the seicont lairgest province o Kazakhstan, efter Karagandy Province. The Ilek River, a tributary o the Ural River, flows through the province. The name "Aktobe" comes frae Kazakh "Ақ" (white) an "төбе" (hill); supposedly, Aktobe's initial settlers wur able tae see white muntains far tae the north.
Aktobe Province Ақтөбе облысы Актюбинская область | |
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 Map o Kazakhstan, location o Aktobe Province heichlichtit | |
| Coordinates: 50°17′N 57°10′E / 50.283°N 57.167°E | |
| Kintra | Kazakhstan |
| Caipital | Aktobe |
| Govrenment | |
| • Akim | Eleusin Sagyndykov |
| Area | |
| • Total | 300600 km2 (116,100 sq mi) |
| Population (2005-01-01) | |
| • Total | 678,900 |
| • Density | 2.3/km2 (5.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (West) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (not observed) |
| Postal codes | 030000 |
| Area codes | +7 (713) |
| ISO 3166 code | KZ-AKT |
| Vehicle registration | D |
| Destricts | 12 |
| Ceeties | 8 |
| Veelages | 441 [1] |
| Website | http://www.akto.kz |
Demographics eedit
Accordin tae the naitional census o 2009, the aurie's population wis 779542 fowks, 407217 weemen an 372325 men. Kazakhs — 614961 persons (79 %), unlike in ither auries o the kintra they form an owerwhelmin majority o the population o the aurie. There are a lot o Roushies, Tatars, Ukrainians, Germans, Koreans, Moldavians, Jews, Armenies, Chechens an ithers in the aurie as well.
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References eedit
Freemit airtins eedit
- Offeecial Steid Archived 2009-01-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Kazakh an Roushie)