Ustyurt Plateau
The Ustyurt or Ust-Yurt is a transboundary clay desert shared by Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The plateau's semi-nomadic population raises camels, goats, and sheep.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Upland with an elevation of 169 metres
- Description: plateau
- Also known as: “Plato Ust’-Urt”, “Plato Ustyurt”, “Ustyurt Platosi”, and “Vozvyshennost’ Ust’-Urt”
Ustyurt Plateau
- Categories: plateau, upland, and landform
- Location: Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Ustyurt Plateau” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هضبة أوستيورت”
- Azerbaijani: “Üstyurd”
- Basque: “Ustiurt ordokia”
- Belarusian: “Усцюрт”
- Bulgarian: “Уст Юрт”
- Bulgarian: “Устюрт”
- Catalan: “altiplà d’Ustiurt”
- Catalan: “Altiplà d’Ustiurt”
- Catalan: “Altiplà de Ustiurt”
- Catalan: “Ustiurt”
- Cebuano: “Ustyurt Platosi”
- Chinese: “乌斯秋尔特高原”
- Croatian: “Ustjurt”
- Czech: “plošina Ustjurt”
- Czech: “Ustjurtská plošina”
- Danish: “Ust-Urt-plateauet”
- Dutch: “Oestjoertplateau”
- Dutch: “Ustyurt Plateau”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هضبة اوستيورت”
- Estonian: “Üstirt”
- Estonian: “Üstirti platoo”
- Finnish: “Ustjurt”
- French: “Oust-Ourt”
- French: “plateau d’Oust-Ourt”
- French: “Plateau d’Oust-Ourt”
- French: “Plateau d’Oustiourt”
- Georgian: “უსტიურტის მაღლობი”
- Georgian: “უსტიურტის პლატო”
- German: “Ust-Urt-Plateau”
- German: “Ust-Urt-Platte”
- German: “Ust-Urt”
- German: “Ustjurt-Plateau”
- German: “Ustjurt”
- Hebrew: “רמת אוסטיורט”
- Italian: “altopiano di Ustyurt”
- Italian: “Altopiano di Ustyurt”
- Japanese: “ウスチュルト台地”
- Kara-Kalpak: “U’stirt”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Ústirt”
- Kazakh: “Üstirt”
- Kazakh: “Үстірт”
- Kazakh: “ٴۇستىرت”
- Kirghiz: “Үстүрт платосу”
- Korean: “우스튜르트고원”
- Latvian: “Ustjurts”
- Lithuanian: “Ustiurtas”
- Lithuanian: “Ustiurto plynaukštė”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ust-Urt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ustiurtplatået”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ustjurt-platået”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ustjurt”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ustjurtplatået”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Usturt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ust-Urt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Üstirt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ustiurt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ustiurtplatået”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Usturt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Üstyurt”
- Norwegian: “Ustjurt”
- Persian: “اوستیورت”
- Polish: “Ust-Urt”
- Polish: “Ustiurt”
- Portuguese: “Planalto de Ustyurt”
- Portuguese: “Platô de Ustyurt”
- Portuguese: “Ustyurt”
- Russian: “Плато Устюрт”
- Russian: “Усть-Юрт”
- Russian: “Устюрт”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Àrd-thìr Ustyurt”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ustyurt Plateau”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ustyurt”
- Spanish: “Meseta de Ustyurt”
- Spanish: “Ust-Urt”
- Spanish: “Üstirt”
- Spanish: “Ustiurt”
- Spanish: “Ustyurt”
- Swedish: “Ust Urt”
- Swedish: “Ust-jurt”
- Swedish: “Ust-Urt”
- Swedish: “Ustirt”
- Swedish: “Üstirt”
- Swedish: “Ustiurt”
- Swedish: “Ustiurtplatån”
- Swedish: “Ustjurt”
- Swedish: “Ustjurtplatån”
- Swedish: “Usturt”
- Swedish: “Ustyurt Platosi”
- Swedish: “Ustyurt”
- Swedish: “Üstyurt”
- Tatar: “Өстйорт платосы”
- Turkish: “Üstyurt”
- Ukrainian: “Устюрт”
- Uzbek: “Ustyurt”
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