East Kazakhstan Region
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East Kazakhstan Region Шығыс Қазақстан облысы Восточно-Казахстанская область |
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Bukhtarma river in East Kazakhstan
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 Map of Kazakhstan, location of East Kazakhstan Region highlighted |
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| Coordinates: 49°57′N 82°37′E / 49.950°N 82.617°ECoordinates: 49°57′N 82°37′E / 49.950°N 82.617°E | ||
| Country |
 Kazakhstan
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| Established | 1932 | |
| Capital | Oskemen | |
| Government | ||
| • Akim | Daniyal Akhmetov | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 283,226 km2 (109,354 sq mi) | |
| Population (2013-02-01) | ||
| • Total | 1,393,932 | |
| • Density | 4.9/km2 (13/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | East (UTC+6) | |
| • Summer (DST) | not observed (UTC+6) | |
| Postal codes | 070000 | |
| Area codes | +7 (722), +7 (723) | |
| ISO 3166 code | KZ-VOS | |
| Vehicle registration | 16, F, U | |
| Districts | 15 | |
| Cities | 10 | |
| Townships | 30 | |
| Villages | 870 | |
| Website | akimvko |
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East Kazakhstan Region (Russian: Восточно-Казахстанская область, Kazakh: Шығыс Қазақстан облысы, Şığıs Qazaqstan oblısı, شىعىس قازاقستان وبلىسى) is a region of Kazakhstan. It occupies the easternmost part of Kazakhstan, along both sides of the Irtysh River and Lake Zaysan. Its administrative center is Oskemen (also known as Ust-Kamenogorsk). The region 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 of the westernmost tip of Mongolia; however, Kazakhstan and Mongolia do not share a common border, the two countries being separated by a small part of Russia and China.It also borders the Kazakh Regions of Pavlodar Region (to the north west), Karaganda Region (to the west), and Almaty Region (to the south).
Population: 1,396,593 (2009 Census results);1,531,024 (1999 Census results). 318,800 (as of 4/1/2011) live in the capital. 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 region was created by the merger of two Soviet-era Kazakhstan oblasts: the old Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya (East Kazakhstan) Oblast and Semipalatinsk Oblast.
The region occupies very diverse range of geographic and climatic regions with Altai Mountains in the east and the eastern margins of Kazakh steppes in the west of the region.
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