Kazakhstan
Caspian Basin
Atyrau Oblisi

Atyrau

Atyrau, known until 1991 as Guryev, is a city in and the capital of . Atyrau is a transcontinental city, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea, between and , 2,700 kilometres west of and 351 kilometres east of the city of .
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  • Type: City with 323,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: “Aterau”, “Chapayev”, “Gur’yev”, “Guryev”, and “Нижний Ур”
  • Historically known as: “Gurev” and “Guriev”
  • Address: Атырау Г.А.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Balyqshy.

Quarter
is a town in , southwest . It lies at an altitude of 17 m below sea level, a few kilometres from Atyrau.

Atyrau

Latitude
47.1067° or 47° 6′ 24″ north
Longitude
51.9139° or 51° 54′ 50″ east
Population
323,000
Elevation
-19 metres (-62 feet)
IATA airport code
GUW
Open location code
8HVH4W47+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 98022062
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
610529
Wiki­data ID
Q486913
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Atyrau” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أتراو”
  • Arabic: “أتيراو، أتيراو”
  • Arabic: “أتيراو”
  • Arabic: “اتيراو”
  • Arabic: “اتييرو”
  • Armenian: “Ատիրաու”
  • Asturian: “Atirau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Atırau”
  • Bashkir: “Атырау”
  • Basque: “Atyrau”
  • Belarusian: “Атырау”
  • Belarusian: “Атыраў”
  • Belarusian: “Гур’еў”
  • Bengali: “আতিরাউ”
  • Bulgarian: “Атърау”
  • Catalan: “Atirau”
  • Cebuano: “Atyrau”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاتراو”
  • Chechen: “Атырау”
  • Chinese: “阿提羅”
  • Chinese: “阿特劳”
  • Chinese: “阿特勞”
  • Chuvash: “Атырау”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Atırav”
  • Czech: “Atyrau”
  • Czech: “Gurjev”
  • Danish: “Atyrau”
  • Dutch: “Alteransk”
  • Dutch: “Atirau”
  • Dutch: “Atiraw”
  • Dutch: “Atıraw”
  • Dutch: “Atyrau”
  • Dutch: “Atyraü”
  • Dutch: “Atyraw”
  • Dutch: “Goerjev”
  • Dutch: “Guryev”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اتيراو”
  • Erzya: “Атырау”
  • Esperanto: “Atirau”
  • Estonian: “Atıraw”
  • Estonian: “Atõrau”
  • Estonian: “Gurjev”
  • Finnish: “Atıraw”
  • French: “Atyraou”
  • French: “Atyrau”
  • French: “Guryev”
  • Georgian: “ატირაუ”
  • German: “Atyrau”
  • German: “Gurjew”
  • Greek: “Ατιράου”
  • Gujarati: “એટીરાઉં”
  • Hebrew: “אטיראו”
  • Hebrew: “גורייב”
  • Hindi: “अत्य्राउ”
  • Hungarian: “Atirau”
  • Ido: “Atıraw”
  • Ido: “Atyrau”
  • Indonesian: “Atyrau”
  • Irish: “Atyrau”
  • Italian: “Atyrau”
  • Italian: “Guriev”
  • Italian: “Jaizk”
  • Japanese: “アティラウ”
  • Japanese: “アテラウ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಟಿರಾವ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Atiraw”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Atıraw”
  • Kazakh: “Atıraw”
  • Kazakh: “Atyraū”
  • Kazakh: “Атырау қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Атырау”
  • Kazakh: “Гурьев”
  • Kazakh: “اتىراۋ”
  • Kirghiz: “Атырау”
  • Korean: “아티라우”
  • Latin: “Atyrau”
  • Latin: “Catodaix”
  • Latin: “Guriev”
  • Latvian: “Atirau”
  • Latvian: “Atirava”
  • Latvian: “Gurjeva”
  • Lithuanian: “Atyrau”
  • Lithuanian: “Gurjevas”
  • Lombard: “Atyrau”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Atyrau”
  • Macedonian: “Атирау”
  • Macedonian: “Гурјев”
  • Malay: “Atyrau”
  • Marathi: “इटाराऊ”
  • Mazanderani: “آتيراو”
  • Mingrelian: “ატირაუ”
  • Moksha: “Атырау”
  • Northern Frisian: “Atyrau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Atyrau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gurjev”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Atyrau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guriev”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gurijev”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Атырау”
  • Norwegian: “Atyrau”
  • Ossetian: “Атырау”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਤੀਰੌ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਤੁਰੌ”
  • Persian: “آتیرائو، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “آتیرائو”
  • Persian: “آتیراو”
  • Persian: “اتیرائو، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “اتیرائو”
  • Polish: “Atyrau”
  • Polish: “Gurjew”
  • Portuguese: “Atyrau”
  • Pushto: “اتیراو”
  • Romanian: “Atîrau”
  • Romanian: “Atyraú”
  • Romanian: “Guriev”
  • Russian: “Атырау”
  • Russian: “Гурьев”
  • Russian: “Нефтяная столица Казахстана”
  • Scots: “Atyrau”
  • Serbian: “Atirau”
  • Serbian: “Атирау”
  • Serbian: “Атырау”
  • Silesian: “Atyrau”
  • Sinhala: “ඇටිරවු”
  • Spanish: “Atirau”
  • Spanish: “Atyrau”
  • Swedish: “Atyrau”
  • Swedish: “Atyraw”
  • Swedish: “Gurjev”
  • Swedish: “Tjapajev”
  • Tajik: “Атирау”
  • Tamil: “அட்டிரா”
  • Tatar: “Атырау”
  • Telugu: “అత్యారవ్”
  • Thai: “อาเตอเรา”
  • Turkish: “Atırau”
  • Turkish: “Atırav”
  • Turkish: “Guryev”
  • Turkmen: “Atyraw”
  • Ukrainian: “Атирау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Atyrau”
  • Urdu: “اتیراؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Atirau”
  • Uzbek: “Atirov”
  • Uzbek: “Атирау”
  • Uzbek: “Атырау”
  • Venetian: “Atyrau”
  • Vietnamese: “Atyrau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Atyrau”
  • Western Panjabi: “آتیراؤ”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿特劳”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿特勞”

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