East Kazakhstan Region
East Kazakhstan Province (Kazakh: Шығыс Қазақстан облысы, Şığıs Qazaqstan oblısı) is a province o Kazakhstan. It occupees the eastmaist pairt o Kazakhstan, alang baith sides o the Irtysh River an Lake Zaysan. Its caipital is Oskemen (referred tae as Ust-Kamenogorsk an aw). The province borders Roushie in the north an northeast an the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region) in the sooth an sootheast. The eastmaist point o the Oblast is vera near, athin 50 kilometers or so o the wastmaist tip o Mongolie; housomeivver, Kazakhstan an Mongolie dae no share a common border, the twa kintras being separatit bi a sma pairt o Roushie an Cheenae. It an aw borders the Kazakh Provinces o Pavlodar (tae the north wast), Karagandy (tae the wast) an Almaty Province (tae the sooth).
East Kazakhstan Province Шығыс Қазақстан облысы Восточно-Казахстанская область | |
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 Map o Kazakhstan, location o East Kazakhstan Province heichlichtit | |
| Coordinates: 49°57′N 82°37′E / 49.950°N 82.617°E | |
| Kintra |  Kazakhstan |
| Caipital | Oskemen |
| Govrenment | |
| • Akim | Janibek Karibjanov |
| Area | |
| • Total | 283300 km2 (109,400 sq mi) |
| Population (2009-01-01)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,418,300 |
| • Density | 5.0/km2 (13/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (East) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+6 (not observit) |
| Postal codes | 070000 |
| Aurie codes | +7 (722), +7 (723) |
| ISO 3166 code | KZ-VOS |
| Vehicle registration | F, U |
| Destricts | 15 |
| Ceeties | 10 |
| Tounships | 30 |
| Veelages | 870 |
| Website | http://akimvko.gov.kz/ |
The population o the province is 1,418,300 (accordin tae the Agency o Statistics), o which 318,800 (as of 4/1/2011) live in the caipital. The aurie haes mony Roushies an Ukrainians; the caipital itsel haes mair o those twa groups than Kazakhs themselves. The aurie is 283,300 in square kilometers.
The province wis creatit bi the merger o twa Soviet-era Kazakhstan oblasts: the auld Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya (East Kazakhstan) Oblast an Semipalatinsk Oblast.
Natur
eeditThe Province occupees vera diverse range o geographic an climatic regions wi Altai Muntains in the east an the eastren margins o Kazakh steppes in the wast o the Province.
Demographics
eedit55% o the population is ethnic Kazakh an 41% is ethnic Roushie.[2]