Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Karaganda Region

Temirtau

Karaganda is a large city in of . It's a coal mining city and in Soviet times its population was much greater: Stalin deported ethnic Germans from the Volga region to use as forced labour here as well as in Siberia.
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  • Type: Town with 172,000 residents
  • Description: place in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: “Samarand”, “Samarka”, “Samarkand”, “Samarkandskoye”, and “Temirtaū”
  • Address: Темиртау Г.А.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Karaganda GRES-1 power station.

Power station
Photo: Master lpc, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 4 km northwest of Temirtau.

Temirtau

Latitude
50.0588° or 50° 3′ 32″ north
Longitude
72.9536° or 72° 57′ 13″ east
Population
172,000
Elevation
514 metres (1,686 feet)
United Nations Location Code
KZ TAU
Open location code
9J2J3X53+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 241455373
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1518262
Wiki­data ID
Q1001104
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Temirtau” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Temirtau”
  • Arabic: “تميرتاو”
  • Armenian: “Տեմիրտաու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Temirtau”
  • Bashkir: “Тимертау”
  • Basque: “Temirtau”
  • Belarusian: “Цеміртау”
  • Belarusian: “Цеміртаў”
  • Bengali: “তেমিরতাউ”
  • Breton: “Temirtau”
  • Bulgarian: “Темиртау”
  • Catalan: “Temirtau”
  • Cebuano: “Temirtau”
  • Central Kurdish: “تێمیرتاو”
  • Chechen: “Темиртау”
  • Chinese: “铁米尔套”
  • Chinese: “鐵米爾套”
  • Corsican: “Temirtau”
  • Czech: “Temirtau”
  • Danish: “Temirtau”
  • Dutch: “Temirtau”
  • Dutch: “Temirtaū”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تميرتاو”
  • Esperanto: “Temirtau”
  • Estonian: “Temirtau”
  • Finnish: “Temirtaw”
  • French: “Kazakhstan”
  • French: “Temirtaou”
  • French: “Témirtaou”
  • French: “Temirtau”
  • German: “Temirtau”
  • Greek: “Τεμιρτάου”
  • Hebrew: “טמירטאו”
  • Hungarian: “Temirtau”
  • Indonesian: “Temirtau”
  • Irish: “Temirtau”
  • Italian: “Temirtau”
  • Japanese: “テミルタウ”
  • Kazakh: “Temirtaū”
  • Kazakh: “Temirtaw”
  • Kazakh: “Теміртау”
  • Kazakh: “تەمىرتاۋ”
  • Korean: “테미르타우”
  • Latvian: “Temirtau”
  • Lithuanian: “Samarkandskis”
  • Lithuanian: “Temirtau”
  • Low German: “Temirtau”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Temirtau”
  • Moksha: “Тэмиртау”
  • Mongolian: “Төмөрт хот”
  • Mongolian: “Төмөрт”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Temirtau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Temirtau”
  • Norwegian: “Temirtau”
  • Ossetian: “Темиртау”
  • Persian: “تمیرتائو، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “تمیرتائو”
  • Persian: “تمیرتاو”
  • Polish: “Temirtau”
  • Polish: “Temyrtau”
  • Portuguese: “Temirtau”
  • Romanian: “Temirtau”
  • Russian: “Казахстанская Магнитка”
  • Russian: “Самаркандский”
  • Russian: “Темиртау”
  • Scots: “Temirtau”
  • Serbian: “Temirtau”
  • Serbian: “Темиртау”
  • Serbian: “Теміртау”
  • Slovenian: “Temirtau”
  • Spanish: “Temirtau”
  • Spanish: “Termitau”
  • Swedish: “Temirtau”
  • Tahitian: “Temirtau”
  • Tatar: “Тимертау”
  • Turkish: “Temirtau”
  • Turkish: “Temirtav, Kazakistan”
  • Udmurt: “Темиртау”
  • Ukrainian: “Темиртау”
  • Ukrainian: “Теміртау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Temirtau”
  • Urdu: “تمیرتاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Temirtau”
  • Uzbek: “Temirtov”
  • Uzbek: “Темиртау”
  • Uzbek: “Темиртов”
  • Venetian: “Temirtau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Temirtau”
  • Western Panjabi: “تمیرتاؤ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Temirtau”. Photo: Andrew Bronx, Public domain.