Kazakhstan
Kazakh Desert
Turkistan Oblast

Kentau

Kentau is a town in Turkestan region of , 30 km northeast from . It was established in 1952 for mining; at first was settled with Soviet exiles. Kentau has great Soviet architecture and some Soviet monumental art.
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  • Type: Town with 74,700 residents
  • Description: place in Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan
  • Address: Кентау Г.А., 160400
  • Postal code: 160400

Kentau

Latitude
43.5166° or 43° 30′ 60″ north
Longitude
68.4996° or 68° 29′ 59″ east
Population
74,700
Elevation
426 metres (1,398 feet)
Open location code
8JMCGF8X+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 241772277
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1522751
Wiki­data ID
Q1315249
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kentau” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كنتاو”
  • Asturian: “Kentau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kentau”
  • Basque: “Kentau”
  • Belarusian: “Кентау”
  • Belarusian: “Кентаў”
  • Bulgarian: “Кентау”
  • Cebuano: “Kentau”
  • Central Kurdish: “کێنتاو”
  • Chinese: “肯套”
  • Czech: “Kentau”
  • Dutch: “Kentau”
  • Dutch: “Kentaū”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنتاو”
  • Finnish: “Kentau”
  • Finnish: “Kentaw”
  • French: “Kentaou”
  • French: “Kentau”
  • Georgian: “ქენთაუ”
  • German: “Kentau”
  • Greek: “Κεντάου”
  • Hebrew: “קנטאו”
  • Indonesian: “Kentau”
  • Italian: “Kentau”
  • Japanese: “ケンタウ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kentaw”
  • Kazakh: “Кентау”
  • Kirghiz: “Кен-Тоо”
  • Latvian: “Kentau”
  • Lithuanian: “Kentau”
  • Macedonian: “Кентау”
  • Persian: “کنتائو، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “کن‌تاو”
  • Polish: “Kentau”
  • Portuguese: “Kentau”
  • Russian: “Кентау”
  • Serbian: “Кентау”
  • Slovak: “Kentau”
  • Swedish: “Kentau”
  • Tajik: “Кентау”
  • Tatar: “Кәнтау”
  • Turkish: “Kendağ”
  • Udmurt: “Кентау”
  • Ukrainian: “Кентау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kentau”
  • Urdu: “کنتاؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Kentau”
  • Uzbek: “Kentov”
  • Western Panjabi: “کنتاؤ”
  • “Кентау”

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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 “Kentau”. Photo: Yuriy75, CC BY-SA 3.0.