Almaty Province

Almaty Province is in the southeast of . The province surrounds the nation's largest city, the former capital , which is administered separately.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Almaty and Charyn Canyon.

in Province is the largest city and the financial and cultural centre of Kazakhstan, with a population in 2024 of 2,250,000. It's a sprawling modern city on a grid pattern, with snow-capped mountains just south marking the border with Kyrgyzstan.

is a national park and a canyon in Almaty Province in . It features huge rock formations rising high above several rivers. It is popular with local and foreign tourists.

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is a ski-resort in the mountains near , . The times when mountain-skiing was only for the most courageous and well off have became a thing of the past.

Almaty Province

Latitude of center
43.6137° or 43° 36′ 49″ north
Longitude of center
77.1358° or 77° 8′ 9″ east
Population
1,990,000
Elevation
505 metres (1,657 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 974358575
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1537162
Wiki­data ID
Q186466
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Almaty Province” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Propinsi Almaty
  • Arabic: أوبليس ألماتي
  • Arabic: اوبليس الماطي
  • Arabic: مقاطعة ألماتي
  • Armenian: Ալմաթի շրջան
  • Awadhi: अलमाती प्रांत
  • Azerbaijani: Almatı vilayəti
  • Bashkir: Алматы өлкәһе
  • Basque: Almatyko probintzia
  • Belarusian: Алмацінская вобласць
  • Belarusian: Алмацінская вобласьць
  • Bengali: আলমাটি অঞ্চল
  • Bulgarian: Алматинска област
  • Catalan: província d’Almati
  • Catalan: Província d’Almati
  • Cebuano: Almaty Oblysy
  • Cebuano: Almaty Qalasy
  • Chechen: Алматан область
  • Chinese: 阿拉木图州
  • Chinese: 阿拉木图省
  • Chinese: 阿拉木圖州
  • Crimean Tatar: Almatı vilâyeti
  • Czech: Almaatská oblast
  • Czech: Almatinská oblast
  • Czech: Almatská oblast
  • Danish: Almaty Region
  • Dutch: Oblast Alma-Ata
  • Dutch: Oblast Almaty
  • Dutch: Oblisi Almati
  • Dutch: Oblısı Almatı
  • Esperanto: Provinco Almato
  • Esperanto: Provinco Almaty
  • Estonian: Almatõ oblast
  • Finnish: Almaty maakunta
  • Finnish: Almatyn alue
  • French: Almaty
  • French: oblys d’Almaty
  • French: Oblys d’Almaty
  • French: Province d’Almaty
  • Galician: Provincia de Almati
  • Galician: Provincia de Almaty
  • Georgian: ალმათის ოლქი
  • German: Almaty
  • German: Gebiet Almaty
  • German: KZ-ALM
  • German: Oblast Almaty
  • Greek: Επαρχία Αλμάτι
  • Greek: Περιφέρεια Αλμάτι
  • Gujarati: અલ્માટી પ્રદેશ
  • Hebrew: אלמטי (מחוז)
  • Hindi: अलमाती प्रांत
  • Hungarian: Almati területet
  • Icelandic: Almaty Fylki
  • Icelandic: Almaty Kjördæmi
  • Icelandic: Almatyfylki
  • Ido: Provinco Almatı
  • Indonesian: Provinsi Almaty
  • Italian: regione di Almaty
  • Italian: Regione di Almaty
  • Japanese: アルマトイ州
  • Kannada: ಅಲ್ಮಾಟಿ ಪ್ರದೇಶ
  • Kazakh: Almatı oblısı
  • Kazakh: Almaty oblysy
  • Kazakh: Almaty Oblysy
  • Kazakh: Almaty
  • Kazakh: Алматы облысы
  • Kazakh: Алматы Облысы
  • Kazakh: Алматы
  • Kazakh: الماتى وبلىسى
  • Kirghiz: Алма Ата облусу
  • Kirghiz: Алматы облусу
  • Korean: 알마티주
  • Latvian: Almati apgabals
  • Lithuanian: Alma Atos sritis
  • Lithuanian: Almatos sritis
  • Macedonian: Алмати
  • Macedonian: Алматинска област
  • Malay: Wilayah Almaty
  • Marathi: अलमाटी राज्य
  • Marathi: अल्माटी प्रदेश
  • Marathi: अल्माटी विभाग
  • Marathi: अल्माटी
  • Mazanderani: آلماتی (ولایت)
  • Mazanderani: آلماتی
  • Northern Frisian: Almaty
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Almaty region
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Almaty oblast
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Almaty oblysy
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Provinsen Almaty
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Алматы облысы
  • Ossetian: Алматыйы облæст
  • Panjabi: ਅਲਮਾਟੀ ਸੂਬਾ
  • Panjabi: ਅਲਮਾਟੀ ਖੇਤਰ
  • Persian: استان آلماتی
  • Persian: استان الماتی
  • Polish: Obwód ałmacki
  • Portuguese: Almati
  • Portuguese: Almaty (região)
  • Romanian: Provincia Almatî
  • Romanian: provincia Almaty
  • Russian: Almatinskaya Oblast’
  • Russian: Алма-Атинская область
  • Russian: Алматинская область
  • Russian: Алматинская Область
  • Scots: Almaty Province
  • Scots: Almaty Region
  • Serbian: Алматинска област
  • Sinhala: අල්මෙටි කලාපය
  • South Azerbaijani: آلماتی اوستانی
  • Spanish: Provincia de Alma Ata
  • Spanish: Provincia de Alma-Ata
  • Spanish: Provincia de Almaty
  • Spanish: provincia de Almatý
  • Swedish: Almaty
  • Tajik: Vilojati Almatj
  • Tajik: Вилояти Алматӣ
  • Tajik: Вилояти Алматй
  • Tamil: அள்மாடி பகுதி
  • Tatar: Алматы өлкәсе
  • Telugu: ఆల్మాటీ ప్రాంతం
  • Thai: แคว้นอัลมาเตอ
  • Turkish: Almatı Eyaleti
  • Turkish: Almatı
  • Udmurt: Алма-Ата улос
  • Udmurt: Алматы улос
  • Uighur: ئالمۇتا ئوبلاستى
  • Ukrainian: Алма-Атинська область
  • Ukrainian: Алматинська область
  • Urdu: الماتی صوبہ
  • Uzbek: Almati
  • Vietnamese: Almaty
  • Vietnamese: Tỉnh Almaty
  • Waray (Philippines): Almaty Province
  • Waray (Philippines): Almaty
  • Wu Chinese: 阿拉木图州
  • Yue Chinese: 阿拉木圖州

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