Kengir
Kengir is a village in central Kazakhstan. It is situated between the cities of Zhezqazghan and Satpayev. During the Soviet era, a prison labor camp of the Steplag division of Gulag in Kazakhstan was set up adjacent to it.- Type: Village with 2,390 residents
- Description: village in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Kengirskoye”
- Address: Кенгирский сельский округ, Жезказган Г.А.
Kengir
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
47.84051° or 47° 50′ 26″ northLongitude
67.61393° or 67° 36′ 50″ eastPopulation
2,390Elevation
377 metres (1,237 feet)Open location code
8JV9RJR7+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 4570190502OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12228179Wikidata ID
Q6389184
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Kengir” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Кенгірскае”
- Chechen: “Кенгирское”
- Chinese: “肯吉尔”
- Dutch: “Kengir”
- French: “Kengir”
- Irish: “Kengir”
- Kazakh: “Kengir”
- Kazakh: “Кеңгір ауылы”
- Kazakh: “Кеңгір”
- Persian: “کنگیر”
- Russian: “Кенгир”
- Russian: “Кенгирское”
- Samogitian: “Kengir”
- Spanish: “Kengir”
- Tatar: “Кеңгер (авыл)”
- Tatar: “Кеңгер”
- Ukrainian: “Кенгірське”
- “Kengirs”
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