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.

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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.

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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 become 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”
  • Amharic: “አልማታ ኦብሊሲ”
  • Arabic: “أوبليس ألماتي”
  • Arabic: “اوبليس الماطي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ألماتي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ألماطة”
  • Armenian: “Ալմաթի շրջան”
  • Awadhi: “अलमाती प्रांत”
  • Azerbaijani: “Almata Oblisi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Almatı vilayəti”
  • Bashkir: “Алматы өлкәһе”
  • Basque: “Almatyko probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Алмацінская вобласць”
  • Belarusian: “Алмацінская вобласьць”
  • Bengali: “আলমাটি অঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “আলমাটি ওবলিসি”
  • 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: “Kategorio:Provinco Almata”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Almato”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Almaty”
  • Estonian: “Almatõ oblast”
  • Finnish: “Almaty maakunta”
  • Finnish: “Almatyn alue”
  • French: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • 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 Oblysy”
  • German: “Almaty”
  • German: “Gebiet Almaty”
  • German: “KZ-ALM”
  • German: “Oblast Almaty”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Αλμάτι”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρεια Αλμάτι”
  • Gujarati: “અલ્માટી પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • 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: “Алматы облусу”
  • Kirghiz: “Алматы Облысы”
  • Korean: “알마티주”
  • Latvian: “Almati apgabals”
  • Lithuanian: “Alma Atos sritis”
  • Lithuanian: “Almatos sritis”
  • Macedonian: “Алматинска Област”
  • Malay: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • Ossetian: “Алматыйы облæст”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਮਾਟੀ ਓਬਲਿਸੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਮਾਟੀ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਮਾਟੀ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Persian: “استان آلماتی”
  • Persian: “استان الماتی”
  • Persian: “الماتی اوبلیسی”
  • Polish: “Obwód ałmacki”
  • Portuguese: “Almati”
  • Portuguese: “Almaty (região)”
  • Portuguese: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • Pushto: “الماتي اوبلسي”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلماتی اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Alma Ata”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Alma-Ata”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Almaty”
  • Spanish: “provincia de Almatý”
  • Swahili: “Almaty Oblysy”
  • Swedish: “Almaty”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Almatj”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Алматӣ”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Алматй”
  • Tajik: “Олмотӣ Облиси”
  • Tamil: “அள்மாடி பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Алматы Облысы”
  • 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”
  • Uzbek: “Almota Oblisi”
  • 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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