Shymkent
Shymkent is a city in southern Kazakhstan, located near the border with Uzbekistan. It holds the status of a city of republican significance, one of only three cities in Kazakhstan with this distinction, alongside Almaty and Astana.Photo: Saken Kenzhebayev, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: City with 1,220,000 residents
- Description: city in Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Черняевка”
- Historically known as: “Chimkent”
- Postal code: 160000
Places of Interest
Highlights include Koshkarata.
Shymkent
- Categories: big city, city of republican significance, and locality
- Location: Kazakh Desert, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.3147° or 42° 18′ 53″ northLongitude
69.5883° or 69° 35′ 18″ eastPopulation
1,220,000Elevation
520 metres (1,706 feet)Open location code
8JJF8H7Q+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1466716533OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1518980Wikidata ID
Q485496
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shymkent” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Shymkent”
- Afrikaans: “Sjimkent”
- Albanian: “Shymkent”
- Amharic: “ሽምክንት”
- Arabic: “شيمكنت”
- Aragonese: “Shymkent”
- Armenian: “Շիմքենդ”
- Armenian: “Շիմքենտ”
- Asturian: “Shymkent”
- Azerbaijani: “Çimkənd”
- Balinese: “Shymkent”
- Bashkir: “Шымкент”
- Basque: “Shimkent”
- Basque: “Tximkent”
- Basque: “Xymkent”
- Belarusian: “Чымкент”
- Belarusian: “Шымкент”
- Bengali: “শিমকেন্ট”
- Bosnian: “Šimkent”
- Bulgarian: “Шимкент”
- Bulgarian: “Шумкент”
- Bulgarian: “Шъмкент”
- Catalan: “Şymkent”
- Catalan: “Tximkent”
- Catalan: “Ximkent”
- Cebuano: “Shymkent (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Shymkent”
- Central Kurdish: “شمکێنت”
- Chechen: “Шымкент”
- Chinese: “奇姆肯特”
- Chinese: “希姆肯特”
- Chinese: “苫勤”
- Chuvash: “Шымкент”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şımkent”
- Croatian: “Šimkent”
- Czech: “Čimkent”
- Czech: “Šymkent”
- Danish: “Shymkent”
- Dutch: “Chimkent”
- Dutch: “Shymkent”
- Dutch: “Simkent”
- Dutch: “Şımkent”
- Dutch: “Sjimkent”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيمكنت”
- Esperanto: “Ĉimkento”
- Esperanto: “Shymkent”
- Esperanto: “Ŝimkento”
- Estonian: “Šõmkent”
- Estonian: “Tšimkent”
- Finnish: “Şımkent”
- Finnish: “Šymkent”
- Finnish: “Şymkent”
- French: “Chimkent”
- French: “Chymkent”
- French: “Shymkent”
- French: “Tchimkent”
- Gagauz: “Şımkent”
- Galician: “Shymkent”
- Georgian: “შიმქენთი”
- German: “Chimkent”
- German: “Schimkent”
- German: “Schymkent”
- German: “Tschimkent”
- Greek: “Σιμκέντ”
- Greek: “Σίμκεντ”
- Gujarati: “શિમકેંટ”
- Hausa: “Shymkent”
- Hebrew: “צ’ימקנט”
- Hebrew: “שימקנט”
- Hindi: “शिमकंद”
- Hindi: “शिमकेंट”
- Hungarian: “Csimkent”
- Hungarian: “Simkent”
- Icelandic: “Sjimkent”
- Ido: “Şımkent”
- Indonesian: “Shykment”
- Indonesian: “Shymkent”
- Interlingue: “Shymkent”
- Irish: “Shymkent”
- Italian: “Shimkent”
- Italian: “Shymkent”
- Italian: “Şımkent”
- Italian: “Šymkent”
- Italian: “Şymkent”
- Japanese: “シムケント”
- Javanese: “Shymkent”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಮ್ಕೆಂಟ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Shımkent”
- Kashubian: “Szëmkent”
- Kazakh: “Shymkent”
- Kazakh: “Şymkent”
- Kazakh: “Черняев”
- Kazakh: “Шым”
- Kazakh: “Шымкент”
- Kazakh: “Шымқала”
- Kazakh: “شىمكەنت”
- Kirghiz: “Чымкен”
- Kirghiz: “Чымкент”
- Korean: “쉼켄트”
- Korean: “심켄트”
- Korean: “침켄트”
- Ladino: “Shymkent”
- Latin: “Šymkent”
- Latvian: “Šimkenta”
- Lithuanian: “Černiajevas”
- Lithuanian: “Čimkentas”
- Lithuanian: “Šymkentas”
- Luxembourgish: “Schymkent”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Shymkent”
- Macedonian: “Шимкент”
- Malay: “Shymkent”
- Maltese: “Shymkent”
- Marathi: “शिमकेंत”
- Moksha: “Шымкэнт”
- Mongolian: “Шымкент”
- Northern Frisian: “Schymkent”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjymkent”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjimkent”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sjymkent”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjimkent”
- Norwegian: “Sjymkent”
- Norwegian: “Tsjimkent”
- Novial: “Shimkent”
- Oromo: “Shymkent”
- Ossetian: “Шымкент”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਮਕੰਟ”
- Persian: “چمکند”
- Persian: “چیمکنت”
- Persian: “چیمکند”
- Persian: “شمکند”
- Persian: “شیمکنت”
- Polish: “Czymkent”
- Polish: “Szymkent”
- Polish: “Szymkient”
- Portuguese: “Chimkent”
- Portuguese: “Shymkent”
- Pushto: “شمکنت”
- Romanian: “Shymkent”
- Romanian: “Șîmkent”
- Russia Buriat: “Шымкент”
- Russian: “Шымкент”
- Rusyn: “Шымкент”
- Samoan: “Simikeneta”
- Sardinian: “Shymkent”
- Scots: “Shymkent”
- Serbian: “Šimkent”
- Serbian: “Шимкент”
- Sicilian: “Shymkent”
- Silesian: “Szymkent”
- Sinhala: “ශිම්කෙන්ට්”
- Slovenian: “Šimkent”
- Somali: “Shymkent”
- Southern Altai: “Шымкент”
- Spanish: “Chimkent”
- Spanish: “Shymkent”
- Swahili: “Shymkent”
- Swedish: “Sjymkent”
- Swedish: “Tjernjev”
- Swedish: “Tjimkent”
- Tajik: “Şimkent”
- Tajik: “Чимканд”
- Tajik: “Чимкент”
- Tajik: “Шимкент”
- Tamil: “சிம்கென்ட்”
- Tatar: “Чимкәнт”
- Tatar: “Чимкент”
- Telugu: “షేమకెంట్”
- Tetum: “Shymkent”
- Thai: “เชิมเกนต์”
- Thai: “เชิมเกียนต์”
- Turkish: “Çimkent”
- Turkish: “Şimkent”
- Turkmen: “Çimkent”
- Tuvinian: “Шымкент”
- Udmurt: “Шымкент”
- Ukrainian: “Чімкент”
- Ukrainian: “Шимкент”
- Upper Sorbian: “Čimkent”
- Upper Sorbian: “Šymkent”
- Urdu: “شیمکنت”
- Uzbek: “Chimkent”
- Venetian: “Şımkent”
- Veps: “Šimkent”
- Vietnamese: “Shymkent”
- Volapük: “Shymkent”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shymkent”
- Welsh: “Shymkent”
- Western Armenian: “Շիմքենթ”
- Western Mari: “Шымкент”
- Western Panjabi: “شمکینت”
- Wu Chinese: “奇姆肯特”
- Wu Chinese: “希姆肯特”
- Yakut: “Шымкент”
- Yue Chinese: “苫勤”
- “ma tomo Sumken”
- “Shymkent”
- “Чимкент”
- “Шымкент”
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