Zhem
Zhem, Kazakhstan, is a town in Atyrau Region of Kazakhstan. Zhem, lying a short distance to the south of Embi, was a former military installation known as Emba-5 before it was granted town status.Photo: Мағыпар, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 1,220 residents
- Description: town in Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Zhem, Kazakhstan”
- Address: Жем қалалық әкімдігі, Мұғалжар ауданы
Zhem
- Categories: city of district importance and locality
- Location: Aktobe, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Latitude
48.7749° or 48° 46′ 30″ northLongitude
58.0739° or 58° 4′ 26″ eastPopulation
1,220Open location code
8HWWQ3FF+XHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1821097811OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityWikidata ID
Q4179248
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Upper Sorbian—“Zhem” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Zhem, Kazakhstan”
- Azerbaijani: “Jem”
- Belarusian: “Жэм”
- Chechen: “Жем”
- Chinese: “恩巴-5”
- Dutch: “Schem”
- Dutch: “Zhem, Kazakhstan”
- German: “Schem”
- Greek: “Ζεμ”
- Irish: “Zhem”
- Kazakh: “Жем”
- Lithuanian: “Emba-5”
- Lithuanian: “Žemas”
- Persian: “جم”
- Persian: “ژم (قزاقستان)”
- Polish: “Żem”
- Russian: “Жем”
- Russian: “Эмба-5”
- Russian: “Эмбинский полигон”
- Tatar: “Җим”
- Ukrainian: “Жем”
- Upper Sorbian: “Žem”
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