Aktau
Aktau is a city of approximately 200,000 citizens on the banks of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan. Aktau has about 274,000 residents.
- Type: City with 274,000 residents
- Description: city in western Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Aktauskiy”, “Aqtau”, “Sjetjenko”, “Актауский”, “Белая гора”, “أكاتو”, “بندر اوکتائو”, “舍甫琴柯”, and “阿克陶”
- Historically known as: “Shevchenko”
- Address: Ақтау қалалық әкімдігі, 130000
- Postal code: 130000
Photo: Triante2009, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Mangyshlak experimental Botanical Garden.
Aktau
- Categories: big city, city of regional significance, posyolok, and locality
- Location: Mangystau, Caspian Basin, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
43.6353° or 43° 38′ 7″ north
Longitude
51.1682° or 51° 10′ 6″ east
Population
274,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
SCO
UN/LOCODE
KZ AAU
Open location code
8HMHJ5P9+47
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Aktau” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Aktau”
- Amharic: “አክታው”
- Arabic: “أكتاو”
- Armenian: “Ակտաու”
- Asturian: “Aktau”
- Azerbaijani: “Aktau”
- Azerbaijani: “Aqtau”
- Bashkir: “Аҡтау”
- Basque: “Aktau”
- Belarusian: “Актау”
- Belarusian: “Актаў”
- Bengali: “আকতাউ”
- Bengali: “আক্টাউ”
- Bulgarian: “Актау”
- Catalan: “Akhtau”
- Cebuano: “Aktau”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاقتاو”
- Chechen: “Актау”
- Chechen: “Акхтау”
- Chinese: “阿克套”
- Crimean Tatar: “Aqtav”
- Croatian: “Aktau”
- Czech: “Aktau”
- Danish: “Aktau”
- Danish: “Aqtau”
- Dutch: “Aqtau”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اكتاو”
- Erzya: “Актау”
- Esperanto: “Aktau”
- Estonian: “Aktau”
- Finnish: “Aqtau”
- Finnish: “Aqtaw”
- French: “Aktaou”
- Georgian: “აქთაუ”
- German: “Aqtau”
- Greek: “Ακτάου”
- Gujarati: “અક્તાઉ”
- Hausa: “Aktau”
- Hebrew: “אקטאו”
- Hindi: “अक़तऊ”
- Hindi: “आक़ताउ”
- Hungarian: “Aktau”
- Indonesian: “Aqtau”
- Interlingue: “Aktau”
- Irish: “Aktau”
- Italian: “Actau”
- Italian: “Aktau”
- Italian: “Aqtau”
- Japanese: “アクタウ”
- Javanese: “Aktau”
- Kannada: “ಆಕ್ಟೌ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Aqtaw”
- Kazakh: “Aqtaū”
- Kazakh: “Ақтау”
- Kirghiz: “Ак-Тоо”
- Kirghiz: “Актау”
- Korean: “악타우”
- Latin: “Aktau”
- Latvian: “Aktau”
- Lithuanian: “Aktau”
- Luxembourgish: “Aktau”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Aktau”
- Macedonian: “Актау”
- Malay: “Aktau”
- Marathi: “एकाटाऊ”
- Mingrelian: “აქთაუ”
- Moksha: “Актау”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aktau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aktau”
- Norwegian: “Aktau”
- Oromo: “Aktau”
- Ossetian: “Актау”
- Panjabi: “ਅਕਤਾਉ”
- Persian: “آقتائو، قزاقستان”
- Persian: “آقتاو”
- Polish: “Aktau”
- Portuguese: “Aktau”
- Pushto: “اکتاو”
- Romanian: “Aqtau”
- Russian: “Актау”
- Russian: “Шевченко” (historical)
- Samogitian: “Aktau”
- Scots: “Aktau”
- Serbian: “Актау”
- Sinhala: “අක්ටෞ”
- Slovenian: “Aktau”
- Somali: “Aktau”
- South Azerbaijani: “آکتاو، روسیه”
- Spanish: “Aktau”
- Swahili: “Aktau”
- Swedish: “Aktau”
- Swedish: “Aqtau”
- Tajik: “Актау”
- Tajik: “Оқтов”
- Tamil: “ஆக்டு”
- Tatar: “Актау”
- Telugu: “అక్ తవు”
- Thai: “อักเตา”
- Turkish: “Aktau”
- Turkish: “Aktav”
- Turkmen: “Aktau”
- Udmurt: “Актау”
- Ukrainian: “Актау”
- Upper Sorbian: “Aktau”
- Urdu: “اقتاؤ”
- Uzbek: “Aqtau”
- Uzbek: “Aqtov”
- Venetian: “Aktau”
- Vietnamese: “Aktau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aktau”
- Western Panjabi: “آقتاؤ”
- Wu Chinese: “阿克套”
- Yakut: “Актау”
- Yue Chinese: “厄圖”
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