Balyqshy
Balyqshy is a town in Atyrau Region, southwest Kazakhstan. It lies at an altitude of 17 m below sea level, a few kilometres from Atyrau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarter with 19,300 residents
- Description: place in Atyrau, Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Balıqşı”, “Balykshi”, and “Belykshi”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Atyrau and Ракуша.
Atyrau
Photo: Uralsk Review, CC BY 3.0.
Atyrau, known until 1991 as Guryev, is a city in Kazakhstan and the capital of Atyrau Region. Atyrau is a transcontinental city, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, 2,700 kilometres west of Almaty and 351 kilometres east of the Russian city of Astrakhan.
Ракуша
Village
Photo: Мағыпар, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ракуша is a village, which is situated 4 km southwest of Balyqshy.
Тасқала
Village
Photo: Мағыпар, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Тасқала is a village, which is situated 6 km south of Balyqshy.
Balyqshy
- Categories: human settlement, residential area, and locality
- Location: Atyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
47.07902° or 47° 4′ 45″ northLongitude
51.88044° or 51° 52′ 50″ eastPopulation
19,300Elevation
-24 metres (-79 feet)Inception
1937Open location code
8HVH3VHJ+J5OpenStreetMap ID
way 656009729OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
610445Wikidata ID
Q4077051
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Balyqshy” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Балыкшы”
- Cebuano: “Balyqshy”
- Chechen: “Балыкши”
- Dutch: “Bałykszy”
- Greek: “Μπαλίκσι”
- Irish: “Balyqshy”
- Kazakh: “Балықшы кенті”
- Kazakh: “Балықшы”
- Malay: “Balyqshy”
- Persian: “بالیقشی”
- Polish: “Bałykszy”
- Russian: “Балыкши”
- Swedish: “Balyksji”
- Ukrainian: “Баликші”
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