Karatau
Karatau is an administrative center in the Talas region located in the Jambyl Region in the south of Kazakhstan. It has an estimated population of roughly 30,000 in 1999.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 28,400 residents
- Description: place in Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Chulak-Tau”, “Karatau, Kazakhstan”, and “Qaratau”
- Address: Таласский район
Karatau
- Categories: city of district importance and locality
- Location: Zhambyl, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.1762° or 43° 10′ 34″ northLongitude
70.46489° or 70° 27′ 54″ eastPopulation
28,400Elevation
525 metres (1,722 feet)Open location code
8JMG5FG7+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 240707056OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1519938Wikidata ID
Q1850973
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Uzbek—“Karatau” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կարատաու”
- Asturian: “Karatau”
- Belarusian: “Каратау (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Каратау”
- Catalan: “Karatau”
- Cebuano: “Karatau”
- Chechen: “Каратау”
- Chinese: “卡拉套”
- Czech: “Karatau”
- Dutch: “Karatau”
- Finnish: “Qaratau (kaupunki)”
- Finnish: “Qaratau”
- French: “Karataou”
- French: “Karatau”
- German: “Qaratau”
- Greek: “Καρατάου”
- Hebrew: “קרטאו”
- Irish: “Karatau”
- Italian: “Karatau”
- Italian: “Qaratau”
- Kazakh: “Qarataū”
- Kazakh: “Qarataw qalası”
- Kazakh: “Қаратау (Жамбыл облысы)”
- Kazakh: “Қаратау қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Қаратау”
- Kazakh: “قاراتاۋ قالاسى”
- Lithuanian: “Karatau”
- Persian: “قرهتاو، قزاقستان”
- Polish: “Karatau”
- Russian: “Каратау”
- Spanish: “Karatau”
- Swedish: “Karatau”
- Swedish: “Qaratau”
- Tatar: “Каратау”
- Turkish: “Karatau”
- Ukrainian: “Каратау”
- Ukrainian: “Чулактау”
- Upper Sorbian: “Karatau”
- Uzbek: “Qaratau”
- Uzbek: “Qoratov”
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