Astana

Astana, in the on the banks of the Esil river, is the capital and the second largest city of the country. Modern Astana is a planned city, designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa.
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  • City with about 1,080,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 350 metres (1,140 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport codes NQZ and TSE
  • …is also known as “Qaraötkel”
  • …dates from 1830
  • Description: capital of Kazakhstan
  • Address: Астана, 010000
  • Postal code: 010000
  • Historically known as
    “Akmola”
    “Akmolinsk”
    “Aqmola”
    “Bozok”
    “Nur-Sultan”
    “Tselinograd”
    “Акмола”
    “Нур-Султан”
    “Целиноград”
    “阿斯塔纳”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Khan Shatyr and Astana Arena.
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Shopping center
is a transparent tent-shaped Entertainment…
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Stadium
The is a football stadium in Astana, Kazakhstan.
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Theater building
is an opera house in Astana, …

Astana

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Latitude
51.1283° or 51° 7′ 42″ north
Longitude
71.4305° or 71° 25′ 50″ east
UN/LOCODE
KZ AST
Open location code
9J3H4CHJ+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27548009
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1526273
Wiki­data ID
Q1520

Satellite Map

Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Astana” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Астана”
  • Abkhazian: “Нур-Султан”
  • Achinese: “Astana”
  • Achinese: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Adyghe: “Акмола”
  • Adyghe: “Акмолинск”
  • Adyghe: “Астана”
  • Adyghe: “Нур-Султан”
  • Adyghe: “Целиноград”
  • Afrikaans: “Akmola”
  • Afrikaans: “Akmolinsk”
  • Afrikaans: “Astana”
  • Afrikaans: “Noersoeltan”
  • Afrikaans: “Tselinograd”
  • Albanian: “Astana”
  • Albanian: “Astanaja”
  • Albanian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Amharic: “ኑር-ሡልታን”
  • Amharic: “አስታና” (historical)
  • Arabic: “آستانا” (historical)
  • Arabic: “أَسْتَانَة” (historical)
  • Arabic: “أسطانا” (historical)
  • Arabic: “أقمولة”
  • Arabic: “الأستانة”
  • Arabic: “نور سلطان” (historical)
  • Aragonese: “Akmola”
  • Aragonese: “Astaná”
  • Aragonese: “Nursultano”
  • Armenian: “Ակմոլա”
  • Armenian: “Ակմոլինսկ”
  • Armenian: “Աստանա” (historical)
  • Armenian: “Նուրսուլթան” (historical)
  • Armenian: “Ցելինոգրադ”
  • Arpitan: “Astana”
  • Arpitan: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Asturian: “Akmola”
  • Asturian: “Akmolinsk”
  • Asturian: “Astaná”
  • Asturian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Asturian: “Tselinograd”
  • Avaric: “Астана”
  • Awadhi: “अस्ताना”
  • Awadhi: “नूर्सुल्तान”
  • Aymara: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Astana” (historical)
  • Azerbaijani: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Balinese: “Astana”
  • Balinese: “Nursultan”
  • Bashkir: “Астана”
  • Bashkir: “Нур-солтан”
  • Basque: “Astana” (historical)
  • Basque: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Belarusian: “Акмала”
  • Belarusian: “Акмалінск”
  • Belarusian: “Акмола”
  • Belarusian: “Астана”
  • Belarusian: “Нур-Султан”
  • Belarusian: “Цалінаград”
  • Bengali: “আস্তানা” (historical)
  • Bengali: “নুর-সুলতান”
  • Betawi: “Astana”
  • Bosnian: “Astana” (historical)
  • Bosnian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Breton: “Astana”
  • Breton: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Bulgarian: “Акмола”
  • Bulgarian: “Акмолинск”
  • Bulgarian: “Астана” (historical)
  • Bulgarian: “Нур-Султан”
  • Bulgarian: “Целиноград”
  • Burmese: “နျူ-ဆူလ်တန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Akmolà”
  • Catalan: “Akmólinsk”
  • Catalan: “Aqmola”
  • Catalan: “Astanà” (historical)
  • Catalan: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Catalan: “Tselinograd”
  • Cebuano: “Astana”
  • Cebuano: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Central Bikol: “Astana”
  • Central Bikol: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاستانا” (historical)
  • Central Kurdish: “نورسوڵتان”
  • Central Kurdish: “نوورسوڵتان”
  • Chechen: “Астана”
  • Chinese: “亚克摩林”
  • Chinese: “切利諾格勒”
  • Chinese: “切利诺格勒”
  • Chinese: “努尔-苏丹”
  • Chinese: “努爾-蘇丹”
  • Chinese: “阿克莫拉”
  • Chinese: “阿斯塔納”
  • Chinese: “阿斯塔纳”
  • Church Slavic: “Астана”
  • Chuvash: “Астана”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Astana”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Croatian: “Astana”
  • Czech: “Akmola”
  • Czech: “Akmolinsk”
  • Czech: “Astana” (historical)
  • Czech: “Celinograd”
  • Czech: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Danish: “Astana” (historical)
  • Danish: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Dimli (individual language): “Astana”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nur-Sultan”
  • Dutch: “Akmolinsk”
  • Dutch: “Aqmola”
  • Dutch: “Astana” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Noer-Soeltan” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Dutch: “Tselinograd”
  • Eastern Mari: “Астана”
  • Eastern Mari: “Нур-Султан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نور سلطان”
  • Erzya: “Астана ош”
  • Erzya: “Астана”
  • Erzya: “Нур-Султан”
  • Esperanto: “Akmolinsko”
  • Esperanto: “Akmolo”
  • Esperanto: “Astano” (historical)
  • Esperanto: “Celinogrado”
  • Esperanto: “Nur-Sultano” (historical)
  • Estonian: “Astana” (historical)
  • Estonian: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Extremaduran: “Astaná”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Astana”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Finnish: “Astana” (historical)
  • Finnish: “Nur-Sultan”
  • French: “Akmola”
  • French: “Akmolinsk”
  • French: “Tselinograd”
  • French: “Astana” (historical)
  • French: “Nour-Soultan” (historical)
  • Fulah: “Astana”
  • Gagauz: “Astana”
  • Gagauz: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Galician: “Akmola”
  • Galician: “Astana”
  • Galician: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Georgian: “ასტანა” (historical)
  • Georgian: “ნურ-სულთანი”
  • German: “Akmolinsk”
  • German: “Aqmola”
  • German: “Zelinograd”
  • German: “Astana” (historical)
  • German: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Greek: “Aστάνα” (historical)
  • Greek: “Αστάνα”
  • Greek: “Νουρ-σουλτάν”
  • Gujarati: “અસટાના”
  • Gujarati: “નર્સલ્ટન”
  • Haitian: “Astana”
  • Haitian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Astana”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Hausa: “Akmola”
  • Hausa: “Akmolinsk”
  • Hausa: “Aqmola”
  • Hausa: “Astana”
  • Hausa: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Hausa: “Tselinograd”
  • Hebrew: “אסטנה” (historical)
  • Hebrew: “אקמולה”
  • Hebrew: “אקמולינסק”
  • Hebrew: “נור-סולטן”
  • Hebrew: “צלינוגרד”
  • Hindi: “अस्ताना”
  • Hindi: “नूर-सुल्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Akmola”
  • Hungarian: “Akmolinszk”
  • Hungarian: “Asztana” (historical)
  • Hungarian: “Celinográd”
  • Hungarian: “Nur-Szultan”
  • Icelandic: “Astana” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Ido: “Astana”
  • Ido: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Iloko: “Astana”
  • Iloko: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Inari Sami: “Astana”
  • Indonesian: “Astana, Kazakstan”
  • Indonesian: “Astana” (historical)
  • Indonesian: “Nur-Sultan, Kazakstan”
  • Indonesian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Ingush: “Астана”
  • Interlingua: “Astana”
  • Interlingua: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Interlingue: “Astana”
  • Interlingue: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Irish: “Astana”
  • Irish: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Italian: “Akmola”
  • Italian: “Astana” (historical)
  • Italian: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Japanese: “アクモラ”
  • Japanese: “アクモリンスク”
  • Japanese: “アスタナ” (historical)
  • Japanese: “ツェリノグラード”
  • Japanese: “ヌル＝スルタン”
  • Javanese: “Astana, Kazakhstan”
  • Javanese: “Astana”
  • Javanese: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Javanese: “Nursultan, Kazakhstan”
  • Kabardian: “Астана”
  • Kabardian: “Нур-Султан”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Astana”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Kannada: “ಅಸ್ಟಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಸ್ತಾನ”
  • Kannada: “ನ-ಸುಲ್ತಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ನೂರ್-ಸುಲ್ತಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Astana”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Kazakh: “Aqmola”
  • Kazakh: “Aqmolinsk”
  • Kazakh: “Astana”
  • Kazakh: “Nūr-Sūltan”
  • Kazakh: “Tselinograd”
  • Kazakh: “Ақмола”
  • Kazakh: “Ақмолинск”
  • Kazakh: “Астана” (historical)
  • Kazakh: “Нұр-Сұлтан” (historical)
  • Kazakh: “Целиноград”
  • Khmer: “នុរស៊ុលតង់”
  • Khmer: “អាស្តាណា”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Astana”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Kirghiz: “Астана”
  • Kirghiz: “Нур-султан”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Астана”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Нур-Султан”
  • Komi: “Astana”
  • Komi: “Астана”
  • Kongo: “Astana”
  • Kongo: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Korean: “누르술탄”
  • Korean: “누르쑬딴”
  • Korean: “아스타나” (historical)
  • Korean: “아크몰라”
  • Korean: “아크몰린스크”
  • Korean: “첼리노그라드”
  • Kurdish: “Astana”
  • Kurdish: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Ladino: “Astana”
  • Ladino: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Latin: “Astana”
  • Latin: “Leucotaphium”
  • Latin: “Nursultanopolis”
  • Latvian: “Astana”
  • Latvian: “Nursultana”
  • Lezghian: “Акмола”
  • Lezghian: “Акмолинск”
  • Lezghian: “Астана”
  • Lezghian: “НурсултӀан”
  • Lezghian: “Целиноград”
  • Ligurian: “Astana”
  • Ligurian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Astana”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Literary Chinese: “努爾蘇丹”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿斯塔納”
  • Lithuanian: “Astana” (historical)
  • Lithuanian: “Nur-Sultanas”
  • Livvi: “Astana”
  • Livvi: “Nur-sultan”
  • Lombard: “Astana”
  • Lombard: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Astana”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Astana” (historical)
  • Luxembourgish: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Astana”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Macedonian: “Астана”
  • Macedonian: “Нур-Султан”
  • Macedonian: “Целиноград”
  • Magahi: “अस्ताना”
  • Magahi: “नूर सुल्तान”
  • Maithili: “अस्ताना”
  • Maithili: “नूर-सुल्तान”
  • Malagasy: “Astana”
  • Malagasy: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Malay: “Astana”
  • Malay: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Malay: “استانا”
  • Malay: “نور سلطان”
  • Malayalam: “അസ്താന”
  • Malayalam: “നൂർ-സുൽത്താൻ”
  • Maltese: “Astana”
  • Maltese: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Manx: “Akmola”
  • Manx: “Akmolinsk”
  • Manx: “Aqmola”
  • Manx: “Astana”
  • Manx: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Manx: “Tselinograd”
  • Maori: “Astana”
  • Maori: “Atāna”
  • Maori: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Marathi: “अस्ताना”
  • Marathi: “नुरसुल्तान”
  • Mazanderani: “آستانه” (historical)
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Astana”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Astana”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nursultan”
  • Minangkabau: “Astana”
  • Mingrelian: “ასტანა”
  • Mingrelian: “ნურსულთანი”
  • Moksha: “Астана”
  • Mongolian: “Астана”
  • Mongolian: “Нур-султан”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أسطانا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “نور سولطان”
  • Navajo: “Haltso Hatsohítah”
  • Neapolitan: “Astana”
  • Neapolitan: “Nursultan”
  • Nepali: “अस्टाना”
  • Nepali: “अस्ताना”
  • Northern Frisian: “Astana”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Northern Luri: “آستانٱ” (historical)
  • Northern Luri: “آستانه” (historical)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akmola”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akmolinsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Astana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tselinograd”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Astana”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nursultan”
  • Norwegian: “Astana” (historical)
  • Norwegian: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Novial: “Astana”
  • Novial: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Astana”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nor-soltan”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܢܘܪ ܣܘܠܛܐܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Astana”
  • Oriya: “ଅସ୍ତାନା”
  • Ossetian: “Астана”
  • Ossetian: “Нур-Султан”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਸਤਾਨਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨੂਰ-ਸੁਲਤਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Astana”
  • Papiamento: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Persian: “آستانا”
  • Persian: “آستانه” (historical)
  • Persian: “نورسلطان” (historical)
  • Piemontese: “Astana”
  • Piemontese: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Polish: “Akmoła”
  • Polish: “Akmolińsk”
  • Polish: “Astana” (historical)
  • Polish: “Celinograd”
  • Polish: “Nur-Sułtan”
  • Portuguese: “Nur Sultã”
  • Portuguese: “Astana” (historical)
  • Portuguese: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Pushto: “استانه” (historical)
  • Quechua: “Astana” (historical)
  • Quechua: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Romanian: “Astana”
  • Romanian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Romanian: “Țelinograd”
  • Russia Buriat: “Астана”
  • Russia Buriat: “Нур-Султан”
  • Russian: “Акмола”
  • Russian: “Акмолинск”
  • Russian: “Астана”
  • Russian: “Нур-Султан” (historical)
  • Russian: “Целиноград”
  • Rusyn: “Астана”
  • Rusyn: “Нур-Султан”
  • Sakizaya: “Asetana”
  • Samogitian: “Astana”
  • Samogitian: “Nursultans”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱩᱨᱼᱥᱩᱞᱛᱟᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Astanà”
  • Scots: “Astana, Kazakhstan”
  • Scots: “Astana”
  • Scots: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Astana”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Serbian: “Astana”
  • Serbian: “Астана” (historical)
  • Serbian: “Нур-Султан” (historical)
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Astana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Shona: “Astana”
  • Shona: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Sicilian: “Astana” (historical)
  • Sicilian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Silesian: “Astana”
  • Silesian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Sindhi: “آستانا”
  • Sindhi: “آستانه”
  • Sindhi: “آستانہ”
  • Sindhi: “اڪمولا”
  • Sindhi: “نور سلطان”
  • Sinhala: “අස්තානා”
  • Sinhala: “ඇස්ටනා”
  • Sinhala: “නූර්-සුල්තාන්”
  • Slovak: “Astana” (historical)
  • Slovak: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Slovenian: “Astana” (historical)
  • Slovenian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آستانا” (historical)
  • South Azerbaijani: “نورسلطان” (historical)
  • South Azerbaijani: “نورسولتان”
  • Southern Altai: “Астана”
  • Spanish: “Astaná” (historical)
  • Spanish: “Nur-Sultán” (historical)
  • Swahili: “Astana”
  • Swahili: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Swedish: “Astana” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Tagalog: “Astana”
  • Tagalog: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Tajik: “Нур-султон”
  • Tajik: “Остона” (historical)
  • Talysh: “Astana”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்டானா”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்தானா”
  • Tamil: “ஆஸ்தான”
  • Tamil: “நுர்-சுல்தான்”
  • Tatar: “Астана”
  • Tatar: “Нур-Солтан” (historical)
  • Telugu: “అస్తానా”
  • Telugu: “నూర్-సుల్తాన్”
  • Thai: “นูร์-ซุลตัน”
  • Thai: “อักโมลา”
  • Thai: “อัสตานา”
  • Tibetan: “ནུར་སུལྟན”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་སི་ཐ་ན།”
  • Tumbuka: “Astana”
  • Turkish: “Akmola”
  • Turkish: “Astana” (historical)
  • Turkish: “Nur-Sultan” (historical)
  • Turkmen: “Astana”
  • Turkmen: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Tuvinian: “Астана”
  • Tyap: “Akmola”
  • Tyap: “Astana”
  • Tyap: “A̱tana”
  • Tyap: “Nuru-Sutan”
  • Udmurt: “Астана”
  • Uighur: “Astana”
  • Uighur: “ئاستانا”
  • Uighur: “نۇرسۇلتان” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Ак-Мола” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Акмолінськ” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Астана” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Нур-Султан” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Цілиноград” (historical)
  • Upper Sorbian: “Astana”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Urdu: “آستانہ” (historical)
  • Urdu: “نور سلطان” (historical)
  • Uzbek: “Nur-Sulton”
  • Uzbek: “Oqmoʻla”
  • Uzbek: “Ostona”
  • Venetian: “Astana”
  • Venetian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Veps: “Astan”
  • Veps: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Vietnamese: “Astana”
  • Vietnamese: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Vlaams: “Astana”
  • Vlaams: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Astana”
  • Volapük: “Astana” (historical)
  • Volapük: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Võro: “Astana”
  • Võro: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Astana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nur-Sultan”
  • Welsh: “Astana”
  • Welsh: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Western Armenian: “Ասթանա”
  • Western Frisian: “Astana”
  • Western Frisian: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Western Mari: “Астана”
  • Western Panjabi: “آستانا”
  • Western Panjabi: “آستانہ” (historical)
  • Western Panjabi: “نور سلطان” (historical)
  • Wolof: “Astana”
  • Wolof: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Wu Chinese: “努尔苏丹”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿斯塔纳”
  • Yakut: “Астана”
  • Yiddish: “אסטאנא”
  • Yiddish: “נורסולטאַן”
  • Yoruba: “Astana”
  • Yoruba: “Nur-Sultan”
  • Yue Chinese: “努爾蘇丹”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿斯塔納”
  • Zhuang: “Astana”
  • Zulu: “i-Astana”
  • “ma tomo Asatana”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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