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Kazakhstan
Kazakh Desert

Baikonur

Baikonur is a city in on the northern bank of the river. It is currently leased and administered by the as an enclave until 2050.
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  • Type: Town with 59,500 residents
  • Description: city in Kazakhstan, administered by Russia
  • Also known as: “Zarya”
  • Historically known as: “Leninsk”, “Leninskiy”, “Tyuratam”, and “Zvezdograd”
  • Address: Байконыр Г.А.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Baikonur CHP station.

Power station
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is a power station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tyuratam.

Village
Photo: Георгий Долгопский, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Töretam is a station on the Trans-Aral Railway, located in . The name means "Töre's grave" in the Kazakh language. Töre, or more formally, Töre-Baba, was a nobleman and descendant of Genghis Khan.

Baikonur

Latitude
45.6285° or 45° 37′ 43″ north
Longitude
63.3017° or 63° 18′ 6″ east
Population
59,500
Elevation
730 metres (2,395 feet)
IATA airport code
BXY
United Nations Location Code
KZ BKZ
Open location code
8JQ5J8H2+9M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 39209179
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1521368
Wiki­data ID
Q165413
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Baikonur” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بايكونور”
  • Arabic: “بيكونور”
  • Armenian: “Բայկոնուր (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Բայկոնուր”
  • Asturian: “Baikonur”
  • Awadhi: “बायकोनूर”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baykonur”
  • Bashkir: “Байҡоңыр”
  • Bashkir: “Байҡуңыр”
  • Basque: “Baikonur”
  • Belarusian: “Байканур (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Байканур”
  • Belarusian: “Байканыр”
  • Bengali: “বাইকুনোর”
  • Bulgarian: “Байконур”
  • Catalan: “Baikonur”
  • Catalan: “Leninsk”
  • Cebuano: “Bayqongyr Qalasy”
  • Central Kurdish: “بایکۆنور”
  • Chechen: “Байконыр”
  • Chinese: “拜哥奴”
  • Chinese: “拜科努”
  • Chinese: “拜科努尔”
  • Chinese: “拜科努爾”
  • Chinese: “白寇努爾”
  • Chinese: “白寇奴爾”
  • Croatian: “Bajkonur”
  • Croatian: “Lenjinsk”
  • Czech: “Bajkonur”
  • Czech: “Leninsk”
  • Danish: “Bajkonur”
  • Dutch: “Baikonoer”
  • Dutch: “Baikonur”
  • Dutch: “Bajkonoer”
  • Eastern Mari: “Байконур”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بايكونور”
  • Esperanto: “Baikonur”
  • Esperanto: “Bajkonur”
  • Estonian: “Bajkongõr”
  • Estonian: “Bayqoñır”
  • Finnish: “Baikonur”
  • Finnish: “Tyuratam”
  • French: “Baikonour”
  • French: “Baïkonour”
  • French: “Baiqongyr”
  • Galician: “Baikonur”
  • Galician: “Cosmódromo de Baikonur”
  • Georgian: “ბაიკონური”
  • German: “Baikonur”
  • German: “Baiqongyr”
  • German: “Bayqonir”
  • German: “Bayqoñır”
  • German: “Kosmodrom Baikonur”
  • German: “Tjura Tam”
  • German: “Tjuratam”
  • Greek: “Μπαϊκονούρ”
  • Gujarati: “બેકોનુર”
  • Hebrew: “באיקונור”
  • Hebrew: “בייקונור”
  • Hebrew: “לנינסק”
  • Hindi: “बायकोनूर”
  • Hindi: “बैकोनूर”
  • Hungarian: “Bajkonur”
  • Ido: “Baýqoñır (urbo)”
  • Ido: “Baýqoñır”
  • Indonesian: “Baikonur”
  • Indonesian: “Baykonur”
  • Irish: “Baikonur”
  • Italian: “Baikonur”
  • Italian: “Baıqońyr”
  • Italian: “Bajkonur”
  • Italian: “Bayqoñyr”
  • Japanese: “バイコヌール”
  • Japanese: “レニンスク”
  • Kannada: “ಬೈಕೊನೂರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Baýqoñır”
  • Kazakh: “Байқоңыр”
  • Kazakh: “بايقوڭىر”
  • Korean: “바이코누르”
  • Latvian: “Baikonira”
  • Latvian: “Baikonura”
  • Latvian: “Ļeņinska”
  • Lithuanian: “Baikonuras”
  • Lithuanian: “Baikonūras”
  • Lithuanian: “Baikonyras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Baikonur”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Baikonur”
  • Macedonian: “Бајконур”
  • Malay: “Baikonur”
  • Marathi: “बैकानूर”
  • Marathi: “बैकोनूर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baikonur”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baiqongyr”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baikonur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bajkonur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bajkonur”
  • Norwegian: “Baikonur”
  • Norwegian: “Bajkonur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baikonor”
  • Ossetian: “Байконур (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Байконур”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਈਕੋਨਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਈਕੋਨੂਰ”
  • Persian: “بایقونور، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “بایقونور”
  • Persian: “بایکونور”
  • Polish: “Bajkonur”
  • Portuguese: “Baikonur”
  • Portuguese: “Bayqonyr”
  • Romanian: “Baikonur”
  • Russian: “Байконур”
  • Russian: “Байкону́р”
  • Russian: “Байконыр”
  • Russian: “Звездоград”
  • Russian: “Ленинск” (historical)
  • Scots: “Baikonur”
  • Serbian: “Bajkonur”
  • Serbian: “Байкону́р”
  • Serbian: “Бајконур”
  • Serbian: “Лењинск”
  • Serbian: “Тјуратам”
  • Sinhala: “බයිකොනුර්”
  • Sinhala: “බයිකොනූර්”
  • Slovak: “Bajkonur”
  • Slovenian: “Bajkonur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بايكونور”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بایکونور”
  • Spanish: “Baikonur”
  • Swahili: “Baikonur”
  • Swedish: “Baikonur”
  • Swedish: “Baikonurkosmodromen”
  • Swedish: “Bajkonir”
  • Swedish: “Bajkonır”
  • Swedish: “Bajkonur”
  • Swedish: “Bajkonurkosmodromen”
  • Swedish: “Bajkonyr”
  • Swedish: “Bajqongir”
  • Swedish: “Bajqongïr”
  • Swedish: “Bajqongyr”
  • Swedish: “Bajqonyr”
  • Swedish: “Baykonur”
  • Swedish: “Baykonyr”
  • Swedish: “Bayqongyr”
  • Swedish: “Bayqonir”
  • Swedish: “Leninsk”
  • Swedish: “Tjuratam”
  • Tamil: “பைகோனுர்”
  • Tamil: “பைக்கனூர்”
  • Tatar: “Байконур”
  • Tatar: “Байкоңгыр”
  • Tatar: “Байкуңгыр”
  • Telugu: “బైకోనూర్”
  • Thai: “บัยกะนูร์”
  • Thai: “บัยโกเงอร์”
  • Turkish: “Baikonur”
  • Turkish: “Baykonur”
  • Turkish: “Leninsk”
  • Ukrainian: “Байконир”
  • Ukrainian: “Байконур”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bajkonur”
  • Urdu: “بایکونور”
  • Uzbek: “Boyqoʻngʻir”
  • Veps: “Baikonur”
  • Vietnamese: “Baikonur”
  • Walloon: “Baykonour”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baikonur”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیکانور”
  • Wu Chinese: “拜科努尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “拜哥奴”

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