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Taraz

Taraz is a city and the administrative center of in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas River in the south of the country near the border with .
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  • Type: City with 431,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kazakhstan
  • Also known as: “Talas”, “Yangi”, “Zhambyl”, and “Жамбул”
  • Historically known as: “Aulie-Ata”, “Auliye-Ata”, “Dzhambul”, and “Jambul”
  • Postal code: 080000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Taraz Central Stadium.

Stadium
Photo: Faizomir, CC0.
Central Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Taraz, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Taraz.

Taraz

Latitude
42.9016° or 42° 54′ 6″ north
Longitude
71.3769° or 71° 22′ 37″ east
Population
431,000
Elevation
611 metres (2,005 feet)
IATA airport code
DMB
United Nations Location Codes
KZ DMB, KZ DZH, and KZ TAR
Open location code
8JJHW92G+JQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240470924
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1516905
Wiki­data ID
Q486545
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Taraz” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Taraz”
  • Arabic: “تاراز”
  • Arabic: “طراز”
  • Armenian: “Աուլիե-Աթա”
  • Armenian: “Թարազ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Taraz”
  • Basque: “Taraz”
  • Belarusian: “Ауліе-Ата”
  • Belarusian: “Джамбул”
  • Belarusian: “Тараз”
  • Bengali: “তারাজ”
  • Bulgarian: “Тараз”
  • Catalan: “Aulie-Ata”
  • Catalan: “Dzhambul”
  • Catalan: “Taraz”
  • Cebuano: “Taraz”
  • Chechen: “Тараз”
  • Chinese: “塔拉兹”
  • Chinese: “塔拉斯”
  • Chinese: “塔拉茲”
  • Chinese: “怛罗斯”
  • Chinese: “怛邏斯”
  • Chinese: “養夷”
  • Chuvash: “Джамбул”
  • Chuvash: “Тараз”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Taraz”
  • Czech: “Taraz”
  • Danish: “Taraz”
  • Dutch: “Aoelieje-Ata”
  • Dutch: “Aoelije-Ata”
  • Dutch: “Aulije-Ata”
  • Dutch: “Auliye-Ata”
  • Dutch: “Dzhamboel”
  • Dutch: “Dzhambul”
  • Dutch: “Dzjamboel”
  • Dutch: “Taraz”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاراز”
  • Esperanto: “Taraz”
  • Estonian: “Džambul”
  • Estonian: “Taraz”
  • Estonian: “Žambõl”
  • Finnish: “Taraz”
  • French: “Djamboul”
  • French: “Jambyl”
  • French: “Taraz”
  • Georgian: “ტარაზი”
  • German: “Aulije-Ata”
  • German: “Dschambul”
  • German: “Schambyl”
  • German: “Taras”
  • German: “Taraz”
  • Greek: “Ταράζ”
  • Gujarati: “તરાઝ”
  • Hebrew: “טאראז”
  • Hebrew: “טראז”
  • Hebrew: “טרז”
  • Hindi: “ताराज़”
  • Hungarian: “Taraz”
  • Indonesian: “Taraz”
  • Irish: “Taraz”
  • Italian: “Džambul”
  • Italian: “Taraz”
  • Italian: “Zhambyl”
  • Japanese: “タラス”
  • Japanese: “タラズ”
  • Kannada: “ತರಾಜ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Taraz”
  • Kazakh: “Taraz”
  • Kazakh: “Жамбыл қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Жамбыл”
  • Kazakh: “Тараз қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Тараз”
  • Kazakh: “تاراز”
  • Kirghiz: “Tapаз”
  • Kirghiz: “Тараз”
  • Korean: “타라스”
  • Korean: “타라즈”
  • Latvian: “Aulie-Ata”
  • Latvian: “Džambula”
  • Latvian: “Mirzojana”
  • Latvian: “Taraza”
  • Latvian: “Žambila”
  • Literary Chinese: “養夷”
  • Lithuanian: “Džambulas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mirzojanas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarazas”
  • Lithuanian: “Žambylas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Taraz”
  • Malay: “Taraz”
  • Malayalam: “തരസ്”
  • Marathi: “तारेज”
  • Moksha: “Тараз”
  • Mongolian: “Тараз”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dzjambul”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taraz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aulije-Ata”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dzjambul”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taraz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Тараз”
  • Norwegian: “Taraz”
  • Ossetian: “Тараз”
  • Persian: “تراز”
  • Persian: “طراز”
  • Polish: “Dżambuł”
  • Polish: “Taraz”
  • Portuguese: “Taraz”
  • Romanian: “Taraz”
  • Russian: “Аулие-ата”
  • Russian: “Аулиэ-Ата”
  • Russian: “Джамбул”
  • Russian: “Мирзоян”
  • Russian: “Тараз”
  • Serbian: “Taraz”
  • Serbian: “Тараз”
  • Silesian: “Taraz”
  • Sinhala: “ටරාස්”
  • Slovenian: “Džambul”
  • Slovenian: “Taraz”
  • Spanish: “Taraz”
  • Spanish: “Zhambil”
  • Swedish: “Aulije-Ata”
  • Swedish: “Djambul”
  • Swedish: “Dsjambul”
  • Swedish: “Dzambul”
  • Swedish: “Dzjambul”
  • Swedish: “Mirzojan”
  • Swedish: “Taraz”
  • Swedish: “Zhambyl”
  • Tajik: “Тараз”
  • Tamil: “தராஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Тараз”
  • Telugu: “తారాజ్”
  • Thai: “ตารัซ”
  • Turkish: “Cambul”
  • Turkish: “Taraz”
  • Udmurt: “Тараз”
  • Uighur: “تاراز”
  • Ukrainian: “Ауліє-ата”
  • Ukrainian: “Джамбул”
  • Ukrainian: “Жамбил”
  • Ukrainian: “Тараз”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Taraz”
  • Urdu: “تاراز”
  • Urdu: “تراز”
  • Uzbek: “Avliyoota”
  • Uzbek: “Taraz”
  • Uzbek: “Тараз”
  • Venetian: “Taraz”
  • Veps: “Taraz”
  • Vietnamese: “Taraz”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taraz”
  • Western Armenian: “Թարազ”
  • Western Panjabi: “تراز”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔拉兹”
  • Yakut: “Тараз”
  • Yue Chinese: “怛邏斯”

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