Karaganda

Karaganda is a large city in of . It's a coal mining city and in Soviet times its population was much greater: Stalin deported ethnic Germans from the Volga region to use as forced labour here as well as in Siberia.
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  • Type: City with 520,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: “Karagandy”, “Qarağandy”, and “Qaraghandy”
  • Address: Караганда Г.А.
  • Postal code: 100000
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shakhter stadium and Eternal flame.

Stadium
Photo: Satkangulov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shakhtyor Stadium is a multi-use in Karaganda, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Jenis and FC Shakhter.

Photo: Wassily, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Theme park
Photo: Dmitry Rozhkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theme park.

Karaganda

Latitude
49.8161° or 49° 48′ 58″ north
Longitude
73.1027° or 73° 6′ 10″ east
Population
520,000
Elevation
545 metres (1,788 feet)
IATA airport code
KGF
United Nations Location Code
KZ KGF
Open location code
8JXMR483+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240865457
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
609655
Wiki­data ID
Q484706
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Karaganda” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Karaganda”
  • Albanian: “Karaganda”
  • Amharic: “ካራጋንዲ”
  • Arabic: “قراغندة”
  • Arabic: “قراغندي”
  • Arabic: “كارقندا”
  • Armenian: “Կարագանդա”
  • Asturian: “Karagandá”
  • Avaric: “Къарагъанда”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karaqanda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qaraganda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qaraqanda”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡарағанды”
  • Basque: “Karaganda”
  • Basque: “Karagandy”
  • Belarusian: “Караганда”
  • Bengali: “কারাগান্ডা”
  • Bengali: “কারাগান্ডি”
  • Bosnian: “Karagandi”
  • Bulgarian: “Караганда”
  • Catalan: “Kharagandí”
  • Cebuano: “Karagandy (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Karagandy”
  • Chechen: “Караганда”
  • Chinese: “加拉干達”
  • Chinese: “卡拉干达”
  • Chinese: “卡拉干達”
  • Chuvash: “Караганда”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qarağandı”
  • Croatian: “Karaganda”
  • Czech: “Karaganda”
  • Czech: “Karagandy”
  • Danish: “Karaganda”
  • Dutch: “Karaganda”
  • Dutch: “Qaragandi”
  • Dutch: “Qarağandi”
  • Dutch: “Qarağandı”
  • Dutch: “Qaraghandy”
  • Eastern Mari: “Караганда”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قراجندى”
  • Esperanto: “Karaganda”
  • Esperanto: “Karagando”
  • Estonian: “Karaganda”
  • Estonian: “Karagandõ”
  • Finnish: “Karaganda”
  • Finnish: “Qarağandı”
  • Finnish: “Qaraghandy”
  • French: “Karaganda”
  • French: “Karagandy”
  • French: “Qarağandı”
  • French: “Qaraghandy”
  • Gagauz: “Karagandi”
  • Galician: “Qarağandı”
  • Georgian: “ყარაღანდა”
  • German: “Karaganda”
  • German: “Karagandy”
  • German: “Qaragandi”
  • German: “Qarağandı”
  • German: “Qaraghandy”
  • Greek: “Καραγκάντα”
  • Guarani: “Karaganda”
  • Guarani: “Karagandy”
  • Gujarati: “કરગાંડા”
  • Hausa: “Karaganda”
  • Hebrew: “קראגנדי”
  • Hebrew: “קרגנדה”
  • Hebrew: “קרגנדי”
  • Hindi: “कारागंडी”
  • Hindi: “कारागन्दा”
  • Hungarian: “Karagandi”
  • Ido: “Qarağandı”
  • Indonesian: “Karaganda”
  • Indonesian: “Karagandy”
  • Interlingue: “Karaganda”
  • Irish: “Karaganda”
  • Italian: “Karaganda”
  • Italian: “Qarağandı”
  • Italian: “Qaraǧandy”
  • Italian: “Qaraghandy”
  • Japanese: “カラガンダ”
  • Javanese: “Karaganda”
  • Kabardian: “Караганда”
  • Kannada: “ಕರಾಗಾಂಡಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qarag’andı”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qaraǵandı”
  • Kazakh: “Qarağandı”
  • Kazakh: “Қарағанды қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Қарағанды”
  • Kazakh: “قاراعاندى”
  • Kirghiz: “Караганды, Казакстан”
  • Kirghiz: “Караганды”
  • Kirghiz: “Қарағанды”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Караганда”
  • Korean: “카라간다”
  • Latin: “Karaganda”
  • Latvian: “Karaganda”
  • Latvian: “Karagandi”
  • Latvian: “Karaghandi”
  • Lezghian: “Караганда”
  • Lezghian: “Къарагъанда”
  • Lithuanian: “Karaganda”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Karaganda”
  • Macedonian: “Караганда”
  • Macedonian: “Караганди”
  • Malay: “Karaganda”
  • Marathi: “कारागंडा”
  • Moksha: “Караганды”
  • Mongolian: “Караганда”
  • Mongolian: “Караганды”
  • Mongolian: “Харганат”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karaganda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karaganda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karagandy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qaraghandy”
  • Norwegian: “Karaganda”
  • Oromo: “Karaganda”
  • Ossetian: “Караганда”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਾਗੰਡੀ”
  • Persian: “قراغندا”
  • Persian: “قراغندی”
  • Persian: “کاراگاندا”
  • Polish: “Karaganda”
  • Polish: “Karagandy”
  • Polish: “Karaghandy”
  • Portuguese: “Karaganda”
  • Portuguese: “Qarağandı”
  • Portuguese: “Qaraghandy”
  • Pushto: “قراغند”
  • Pushto: “کاراګندی”
  • Romanian: “Karaganda”
  • Romanian: “Qaraǵandy”
  • Russia Buriat: “Харганата”
  • Russian: “Караганда”
  • Russian: “Караганды”
  • Rusyn: “Караганда”
  • Sardinian: “Karaganda”
  • Scots: “Karaganda”
  • Serbian: “Karaganda”
  • Serbian: “Караганда”
  • Serbian: “Караганди”
  • Serbian: “Қарағанды”
  • Silesian: “Karaganda”
  • Sinhala: “කරගන්ඩා”
  • Slovak: “Karaganda”
  • Slovenian: “Karaganda”
  • Somali: “Karaganda”
  • Spanish: “Karaganda”
  • Spanish: “Karagandá”
  • Spanish: “Karagandy”
  • Spanish: “Qaraghandy”
  • Swahili: “Karaganda”
  • Swedish: “Karaganda (oblysthuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Karaganda”
  • Swedish: “Karagandy”
  • Swedish: “Qaragandi”
  • Swedish: “Qarağandı”
  • Swedish: “Qaraghandy”
  • Tajik: “Қарағанди”
  • Tajik: “Қарағандӣ”
  • Talysh: “Karaganda”
  • Talysh: “Karaqanda”
  • Tamil: “கராகண்டா”
  • Tatar: “Караганда”
  • Tatar: “Караганды”
  • Tatar: “Карганда”
  • Telugu: “కరగాండా”
  • Thai: “คาราฆันเดอ”
  • Thai: “ฆาราฆันเดอ”
  • Turkish: “Karaganda”
  • Turkish: “Karagandı”
  • Turkish: “Karağandı”
  • Turkmen: “Garaganda”
  • Udmurt: “Кара-Ганда”
  • Udmurt: “Кара-Ганды”
  • Udmurt: “Караганда”
  • Udmurt: “Караганды”
  • Ukrainian: “Караганда”
  • Ukrainian: “Караґанда”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karaganda”
  • Urdu: “قاراغاندی”
  • Urdu: “کاراگنڈی”
  • Uzbek: “Qarag’andi”
  • Uzbek: “Qaraganda”
  • Uzbek: “Qaragʻandi”
  • Uzbek: “Караганда”
  • Uzbek: “Қарағанди”
  • Venetian: “Karaganda”
  • Veps: “Karagand”
  • Veps: “Karaganda”
  • Veps: “Karagandi”
  • Vietnamese: “Karagandy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karaganda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Karagandy”
  • Western Armenian: “Գարականտա”
  • Western Armenian: “Քարականտա”
  • Western Mari: “Караганда”
  • Western Panjabi: “قاراغاندی”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡拉干达”
  • Yakut: “Караганда”
  • Yakut: “Караҕанды”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡拉干達”

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