Taraz
Taraz is a city and the administrative center of Jambyl Region in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas River in the south of the country near the border with Kyrgyzstan.
- Type: City with 431,000 residents
- Description: city in Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Aoelieje-Ata”, “Aoelije-Ata”, “Aulije-Ata”, “Avliyoota”, “Cambul”, “Djamboul”, “Djambul”, “Dschambul”, “Dsjambul”, “Dzambul”, “Džambul”, “Dżambuł”, “Džambula”, “Džambulas”, “Dzhamboel”, “Dzjamboel”, “Dzjambul”, “Jambyl”, “Mirzojan”, “Mirzojana”, “Mirzojanas”, “Schambyl”, “Talas”, “Yangi”, “Žambila”, “Žambõl”, “Žambylas”, “Zhambil”, “Zhambyl”, “Аулие-ата”, “Аулиэ-Ата”, “Ауліе-Ата”, “Ауліє-ата”, “Джамбул”, “Жамбил”, “Жамбул”, “Жамбыл”, “Жамбыл қаласы”, “Мирзоян”, “Тараз қаласы”, “Աուլիե-Աթա”, “טרז”, “타라스”, “塔剌思”, “塔拉斯”, “怛罗斯”, and “江布尔”
- Historically known as: “Aulie-Ata”, “Auliye-Ata”, “Dzhambul”, and “Jambul”
- Address: Тараз, 080000
- Postal code: 080000
Places of Interest
Highlights: Taraz Central Stadium and Собор Успения Божией Матери.
Taraz
- Categories: border city, big city, city of regional significance, and locality
- Location: Zhambyl, Kazakh Desert, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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)
Open location code
8JJHW92G+JQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Taraz” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Taraz”
- Amharic: “ታራዝ”
- Arabic: “تاراز”
- Arabic: “طراز”
- Armenian: “Թարազ”
- Azerbaijani: “Taraz”
- Basque: “Taraz”
- Belarusian: “Тараз”
- Bengali: “তারাজ”
- Bulgarian: “Тараз”
- Catalan: “Taraz”
- Cebuano: “Taraz”
- Chechen: “Тараз”
- Chinese: “塔拉兹”
- Chinese: “塔拉茲”
- Chuvash: “Тараз”
- Crimean Tatar: “Taraz”
- Czech: “Taraz”
- Danish: “Taraz”
- Dutch: “Taraz”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاراز”
- Esperanto: “Taraz”
- Estonian: “Taraz”
- Finnish: “Taraz”
- French: “Taraz”
- Georgian: “ტარაზი”
- German: “Taras”
- Greek: “Ταράζ”
- Gujarati: “તરાઝ”
- Hausa: “Taraz”
- Hebrew: “טאראז”
- Hebrew: “טראז”
- Hindi: “तराज़”
- Hindi: “ताराज़”
- Hungarian: “Taraz”
- Indonesian: “Taraz”
- Irish: “Taraz”
- Italian: “Taraz”
- Japanese: “タラス”
- Japanese: “タラズ”
- Javanese: “Taraz”
- Kannada: “ತರಾಜ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Taraz”
- Kazakh: “Taraz”
- Kazakh: “Тараз”
- Kazakh: “تاراز”
- Kirghiz: “Tapаз”
- Kirghiz: “Тараз”
- Korean: “타라즈”
- Latvian: “Taraza”
- Literary Chinese: “養夷”
- Lithuanian: “Tarazas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Taraz”
- Malay: “Taraz”
- Malayalam: “തരസ്”
- Marathi: “तारेज”
- Moksha: “Тараз”
- Mongolian: “Тараз”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taraz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taraz”
- Norwegian: “Taraz”
- Oromo: “Taraz”
- Ossetian: “Тараз”
- Panjabi: “ਤਾਰਾਜ਼”
- Persian: “طراز”
- Polish: “Taraz”
- Portuguese: “Taraz”
- Pushto: “تاراز”
- Romanian: “Taraz”
- Russian: “Тараз”
- Serbian: “Taraz”
- Serbian: “Тараз”
- Silesian: “Taraz”
- Sinhala: “ටරාස්”
- Slovenian: “Taraz”
- Somali: “Taraz”
- Spanish: “Taraz”
- Swahili: “Taraz”
- Swedish: “Taraz”
- Tajik: “Тараз”
- Tajik: “Тораз”
- Tamil: “தராஸ்”
- Tatar: “Тараз”
- Telugu: “తారాజ్”
- Thai: “ตารัซ”
- Turkish: “Taraz”
- Udmurt: “Тараз”
- Uighur: “تاراز”
- Ukrainian: “Тараз”
- Upper Sorbian: “Taraz”
- Urdu: “تاراز”
- Urdu: “تراز”
- Uzbek: “Taraz”
- 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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