Aktobe

Aktobe is a major city in western Kazakhstan, located on the . It serves as the administrative center of the and is an important cultural, economic, and industrial hub in the region.
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  • Type: City with 570,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: Aktjubinsk” and “Aqtobe
  • Historically known as: Aktiubinsk”, “Aktubinsk”, “Aktyubinsk”, and “Ukhtiubinskii
  • Postal code: 030000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Regional Kazhak Drama Theatre Takhavi Akhtanov and Pushkin’s Park.

Theater building
is a theater building.

Aktobe

Latitude
50.2837° or 50° 17′ 1″ north
Longitude
57.2298° or 57° 13′ 47″ east
Population
570,000
Elevation
210 metres (689 feet)
Inception
1869
IATA airport code
AKX
United Nations Location Codes
KZ ABE and KZ AKX
Open location code
9H2V76MH+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 241035125
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
610611
Wiki­data ID
Q477232
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Aktobe” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: Aktobe
  • Arabic: أق تبه
  • Arabic: أق توبه
  • Arabic: أقتوبة
  • Arabic: أقتوبه
  • Arabic: أقتوبي
  • Arabic: أكتوبي
  • Armenian: Ակտյուբինսկ
  • Armenian: Ակտոբե
  • Asturian: Aktobe
  • Azerbaijani: Aqtöbe
  • Bashkir: Аҡтүбә
  • Basque: Aktobe
  • Belarusian: Актабе
  • Belarusian: Актабэ
  • Belarusian: Акцюбінск
  • Bengali: আকতোবে
  • Bulgarian: Актобе
  • Catalan: Aktiúbinsk
  • Catalan: Aktobé
  • Cebuano: Aqtöbe (kapital sa lalawigan sa Kasahistan)
  • Cebuano: Aqtöbe
  • Central Kurdish: ئاقتوێبێ
  • Chechen: Акхтоьбе
  • Chinese: 厄托別
  • Chinese: 阿克托別
  • Chinese: 阿克托别
  • Chinese: 阿克托比
  • Crimean Tatar: Aqtöbe
  • Czech: Akťjubinsk
  • Czech: Aktobe
  • Danish: Aktobe
  • Dutch: Aqtöbe
  • Egyptian Arabic: اكتوبى
  • Erzya: Актобе
  • Esperanto: Aktobe
  • Estonian: Aktöbe
  • Finnish: Aqtöbe
  • French: Aktioubé
  • Georgian: აქტობე
  • German: Aqtöbe
  • Greek: Ακτομπέ
  • Greek: Ακτόμπε
  • Gujarati: અક્ટોબે
  • Hebrew: אקטובה
  • Hebrew: אקטיובינסק
  • Hindi: अक्टोबे
  • Hungarian: Ak-Tyube
  • Hungarian: Aktöbe
  • Hungarian: Aktyubinszk
  • Indonesian: Aktobe
  • Interlingua: Aktobe
  • Irish: Aktobe
  • Italian: Aktobe
  • Italian: Aqtöbe
  • Japanese: アクトべ
  • Japanese: アクトベ
  • Kannada: ಆಕ್ಟೋವ್
  • Kara-Kalpak: Aqto’be
  • Kara-Kalpak: Aqtóbe
  • Kazakh: Aqtóbe
  • Kazakh: Ақтөбе
  • Kirghiz: Актөбө
  • Korean: 악퇴베
  • Latin: Aktobe
  • Latvian: Aktebe
  • Lithuanian: Aktobė
  • Macedo-Romanian: Aktobe
  • Macedonian: Актобе
  • Malay: Aktobe
  • Marathi: आटॉबे
  • Mingrelian: აქტობე
  • Moksha: Актобе
  • Mongolian: Актөбе
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Aktobe
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Aktobe
  • Norwegian: Aktobe
  • Ossetian: Актобе
  • Ossetian: Актюбинск
  • Panjabi: ਅਕਤੋਬੇ
  • Persian: آق‌تپه، قزاقستان
  • Persian: آق‌تپه
  • Persian: آکتوبه، قزاقستان
  • Persian: آکتوبه
  • Polish: Aktiube
  • Polish: Aktobe
  • Portuguese: Aqtöbe
  • Pushto: اقتپه
  • Romanian: Aktobe
  • Russian: Ак-Тюбе
  • Russian: Актобе
  • Russian: Актюбе
  • Russian: Актюбинск
  • Scots: Aktobe
  • Serbian: Актјубинск
  • Serbian: Актобе
  • Sinhala: අක්ටෝබේ
  • Slovak: Aktobe
  • Slovenian: Aktjubinsk
  • Slovenian: Aktobe
  • Slovenian: Aķtöbe
  • Spanish: Aktobe
  • Spanish: Aktobé
  • Swedish: Aktobe
  • Swedish: Aqtöbe
  • Tamil: அஃதோபெ
  • Tatar: Актүбә
  • Telugu: ఆక్టోబ్
  • Thai: อักเตอเบ
  • Thai: อักเตอเบีย
  • Turkish: Aktöbe
  • Turkmen: Aqtöbe
  • Ukrainian: Актобе
  • Ukrainian: Актюбінськ
  • Upper Sorbian: Aktobe
  • Urdu: اقتوبے
  • Uzbek: Aqtoʻbe
  • Uzbek: Oqtoʻba
  • Venetian: Aqtöbe
  • Veps: Aktobe
  • Vietnamese: Aktobe
  • Waray (Philippines): Aktobe
  • Western Frisian: Aqtöbe
  • Western Panjabi: اقتوبے
  • Wu Chinese: 阿克托别
  • Yakut: Актөбе
  • Yue Chinese: 厄托別
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