Balkhash
Balkhash is a small city located on a lake of the same name and in the Central Highlands of Kazakhstan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Юрий Иванков, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 73,500 residents
- Description: city in Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Balqaş”, “Balqash”, “Pribalkhash”, and “Pribalkhashstroy”
- Address: Балхаш Г.А.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balkhash Palace of Culture and Balkash Power Station.
Balkhash Palace of Culture
Community center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balkhash Palace of Culture is a community center.
Balkhash
- Categories: city, human settlement, city of regional significance, and locality
- Location: Karaganda Region, Central Highlands, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.8433° or 46° 50′ 36″ northLongitude
74.9773° or 74° 58′ 38″ eastPopulation
73,500Elevation
372 metres (1,220 feet)IATA airport code
BXHOpen location code
8JRPRXVG+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 244017974OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Balkhash” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالخاش”
- Arabic: “بالكاش”
- Arabic: “بلقاش”
- Arabic: “بلكاش”
- Asturian: “Balkhash”
- Azerbaijani: “Balqaş”
- Basque: “Balkhax”
- Belarusian: “Балхаш (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Балхаш”
- Bulgarian: “Балхаш”
- Catalan: “Balkhash”
- Cebuano: “Balqash”
- Central Kurdish: “بالقاش”
- Chechen: “Балхаш”
- Chinese: “巴尔喀什”
- Chinese: “巴爾喀什”
- Chuvash: “Балхаш (хула)”
- Chuvash: “Балхаш”
- Czech: “Balchaš”
- Dutch: “Balqaş”
- Dutch: “Balqash”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالخاش”
- Finnish: “Balkaš”
- Finnish: “Balqaş”
- French: “Balkhach”
- French: “Balkhash”
- Georgian: “ბალხაში”
- German: “Balchasch”
- German: “Balqasch”
- Greek: “Μπαλκάς”
- Indonesian: “Balkhash”
- Ingush: “Балхаш (пхье)”
- Ingush: “Балхаш”
- Irish: “Balkhash”
- Italian: “Balqaş”
- Japanese: “バルカシュ”
- Japanese: “バルハシ”
- Japanese: “バルハシュ”
- Kazakh: “Balqash”
- Kazakh: “Балқаш (қала)”
- Kazakh: “Балқаш қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Балқаш”
- Korean: “발하시”
- Latvian: “Balkaša”
- Lithuanian: “Balchašas (miestas)”
- Lithuanian: “Balkašas (miestas)”
- Lithuanian: “Balkašas”
- Macedonian: “Балхаш”
- Moksha: “Балкаш”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balkhasj”
- Persian: “بالقاش، قزاقستان”
- Persian: “بالقاش”
- Polish: “Bachasz”
- Polish: “Bałchasz”
- Pushto: “بالقاش (ښار)”
- Pushto: “بالقاش”
- Russian: “Балхаш (город в Карагандинской обл.)”
- Russian: “Балхаш”
- Serbian: “Балқаш”
- Serbian: “Балхаш”
- Sindhi: “بلڪاش”
- South Azerbaijani: “بالخاش، روسیه”
- Spanish: “Baljash”
- Swedish: “Balchasj”
- Swedish: “Balkasch”
- Swedish: “Balkash”
- Swedish: “Balkasj”
- Swedish: “Balkhash”
- Swedish: “Balkhasj”
- Swedish: “Balqaş”
- Swedish: “Balqash”
- Tajik: “Балхаш (шаҳр)”
- Tajik: “Балхаш”
- Tatar: “Балкаш”
- Turkish: “Balkaş”
- Udmurt: “Балхаш”
- Ukrainian: “Балхаш”
- Upper Sorbian: “Balkaš”
- Urdu: “بالقاش”
- Uzbek: “Balxash”
- Western Panjabi: “بالخاش (شہر)”
- Western Panjabi: “بالخاش”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Balkhash”. Photo: Юрий Иванков, Public domain.