Kazakhstan
Caspian Basin
Mangystau Region

Aktau

Aktau is a major port city in southwestern , on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. Aktau is on the Mangyshlak Peninsula in the .
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  • Type: City with 274,000 residents
  • Description: city in western Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: “Aktauskiy” and “Aqtau”
  • Historically known as: “Shevchenko”
  • Address: Ақтау қалалық әкімдігі, 130000
  • Postal code: 130000
Photo: Triante2009, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mangyshlak experimental Botanical Garden.

Garden
Photo: AdamAktau, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Aktau

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
United Nations Location Code
KZ AAU
Open location code
8HMHJ5P9+47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 729610410
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
610612
Wiki­data ID
Q198989
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Aktau” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Aktau”
  • Arabic: “أكاتو”
  • Arabic: “أكتاو”
  • Armenian: “Ակտաու”
  • Asturian: “Aktau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aktau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aqtau”
  • Bashkir: “Аҡтау”
  • Basque: “Aktau”
  • Belarusian: “Актау”
  • Belarusian: “Актаў”
  • Bengali: “আকতাউ”
  • Bulgarian: “Актау”
  • Catalan: “Akhtau”
  • Catalan: “Aktau”
  • Catalan: “Aqtau”
  • Cebuano: “Aktau”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاقتاو”
  • Chechen: “Актау”
  • Chechen: “Акхтау”
  • Chinese: “厄圖”
  • Chinese: “舍甫琴柯”
  • Chinese: “阿克套”
  • Chinese: “阿克陶”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aqtav”
  • Croatian: “Aktau”
  • Czech: “Aktau”
  • Czech: “Aqtau”
  • Czech: “Актау”
  • Czech: “Ақтау”
  • Danish: “Aqtau”
  • Dutch: “Aqtau”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكتاو”
  • Erzya: “Актау”
  • Esperanto: “Aktau”
  • Estonian: “Aktau”
  • Finnish: “Aqtaw”
  • French: “Aktaou”
  • Georgian: “აქთაუ”
  • German: “Aktau”
  • German: “Aqtau”
  • Greek: “Ακτάου”
  • Gujarati: “અક્તાઉ”
  • Hebrew: “אקטאו”
  • Hindi: “अक़तऊ”
  • Hungarian: “Aktau”
  • Indonesian: “Aqtau”
  • Interlingue: “Aktau”
  • Irish: “Aktau”
  • Italian: “Actau”
  • Italian: “Aktau”
  • Italian: “Aqtau”
  • Japanese: “アクタウ”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Актау”
  • Persian: “آقتائو، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “آق‌تاو”
  • Persian: “بندر اوکتائو”
  • Polish: “Aktau”
  • Portuguese: “Aktau”
  • Romanian: “Aktau”
  • Romanian: “Aqtau”
  • Russian: “Актау”
  • Russian: “Актауский”
  • Russian: “Белая гора”
  • Russian: “Шевченко” (historical)
  • Samogitian: “Aktau”
  • Scots: “Aktau”
  • Serbian: “Актау”
  • Sinhala: “අක්ටෞ”
  • Slovenian: “Aktau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آکتاو، روسیه”
  • Spanish: “Aktau”
  • Swedish: “Aktau”
  • Swedish: “Aqtau”
  • Swedish: “Sjetjenko”
  • Tajik: “Оқтов”
  • Tamil: “ஆக்டு”
  • Tatar: “Актау”
  • Telugu: “అక్ తవు”
  • Thai: “อักเตา”
  • Turkish: “Aktau”
  • Turkish: “Aktav”
  • Turkmen: “Aktau”
  • Udmurt: “Актау”
  • Ukrainian: “Актау”
  • Ukrainian: “Шевченко”
  • 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”
  • “Aktau”

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