Turkestan

Turkestan or Turkistan is a small but ancient city in the . There are many historical sights in this relatively well preserved, 1600-year-old city.
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  • City with about 165,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 220 metres (710 feet)
  • …was formerly known as “Hazrat-e Turkestan, Yassy”
  • Description: city in Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan
  • Address: Түркістан, Түркістан қалалық әкімдігі
  • Also known as
    “Hazrat-i Turkestan”
    “Türkistan”
    “Turkiston”
    “Yasi”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi and Azret-Sultan.
Yuriy75, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a mausoleum…
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is a museum.

Turkestan

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Latitude
43.2894° or 43° 17′ 22″ north
Longitude
68.2538° or 68° 15′ 14″ east
Open location code
8JMC77Q3+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 880812236
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1517945
Wiki­data ID
Q848638

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Turkestan” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቱርክስታን”
  • Arabic: “تركستان”
  • Armenian: “Թուրքեստան”
  • Asturian: “Turkistan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Həzrəti Türküstan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şəhəri-Türküstan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Türkistan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Türküstan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yasi”
  • Bashkir: “Төркөстан”
  • Basque: “Turkestan”
  • Belarusian: “Туркестан”
  • Bengali: “তুর্কেস্তান”
  • Bulgarian: “Туркестан”
  • Catalan: “Shawghar”
  • Catalan: “Turkiston”
  • Catalan: “Türkıstan”
  • Catalan: “Yasi”
  • Catalan: “Yassi”
  • Catalan: “Yassy”
  • Catalan: “Yasy”
  • Cebuano: “Turkestan”
  • Central Kurdish: “تورکستان، کازاخستان”
  • Chechen: “Туркестан”
  • Chinese: “图尔克斯坦”
  • Chinese: “图尔克斯坦市”
  • Chinese: “图爾克斯坦”
  • Chinese: “土耳其斯坦”
  • Chinese: “突厥斯坦”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Türkistan”
  • Czech: “Turkestán”
  • Dutch: “Türkistan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تركستان”
  • Esperanto: “Turkistano”
  • Estonian: “Türkistan”
  • Finnish: “Turkestan”
  • Finnish: “Türkıstan”
  • French: “Turkestan”
  • French: “Türkistan”
  • Georgian: “თურქესტანი”
  • German: “Turkestan”
  • German: “Türkistan”
  • Greek: “Τουρκιστάν”
  • Hausa: “Turkestan”
  • Hebrew: “טורקיסטן”
  • Hindi: “तुर्किस्तान (शहर)”
  • Hindi: “तुर्केस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Türkisztán”
  • Indonesian: “Hazrat-i Turkestan”
  • Indonesian: “Turkestan”
  • Indonesian: “Türkistan”
  • Indonesian: “Turkiston”
  • Indonesian: “Yasi”
  • Irish: “Turkistan”
  • Italian: “Hazrat-e Turkestan”
  • Italian: “Shavgar”
  • Italian: “Türkistan”
  • Italian: “Yasi”
  • Japanese: “テュルキスタン”
  • Japanese: “トルキスタン市”
  • Japanese: “トルケスタン”
  • Javanese: “Turkestan”
  • Kazakh: “Türkistan qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Türkistan”
  • Kazakh: “Түркістан (қала)”
  • Kazakh: “Түркістан қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Түркістан”
  • Kazakh: “تۇركىستان قالاسى”
  • Kirghiz: “Түркстан”
  • Korean: “투르키스탄”
  • Korean: “튀르키스탄”
  • Latvian: “Tirkistana”
  • Latvian: “Turkistāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Turkistanas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hazrat-e Turkestan”
  • Macedonian: “Туркеста”
  • Macedonian: “Туркистан”
  • Malay: “Turkestan”
  • Mongolian: “Түркистан хот”
  • Mongolian: “Түркистан”
  • Northern Frisian: “Turkistaan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Turkestan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Türkistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hazrat-e Turkestan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turkestan i Kasakhstan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Turkistan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Түркістанm”
  • Norwegian: “Turkistan”
  • Novial: “Turkıstan”
  • Oromo: “Turkestan”
  • Ossetian: “Туркестан”
  • Panjabi: “ਤੁਰਕੇਸਤਾਨ”
  • Persian: “ترکستان، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “ترکستان”
  • Persian: “حضرت ترکستان، قزاقستان”
  • Persian: “حضرت ترکستان”
  • Polish: “Turkiestan”
  • Portuguese: “Turquestão (cidade)”
  • Portuguese: “Turquestão”
  • Portuguese: “Turquistão”
  • Pushto: “ترکستان”
  • Romanian: “Turkistan, Kazahstan”
  • Russian: “Туркестан”
  • Russian: “Туркистан”
  • Russian: “Хазрети-Туркестан”
  • Russian: “Шавгар”
  • Serbian: “Turkestan”
  • Serbian: “Туркестан”
  • Serbian: “Түркістан”
  • Slovenian: “Turkestan”
  • Slovenian: “Turkistan”
  • Somali: “Turkestan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تورکوستان (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تورکوستان”
  • Spanish: “Hazrat-i Turkestan”
  • Spanish: “Turkestán”
  • Spanish: “Türkistan”
  • Swahili: “Turkestan”
  • Swedish: “Turkestan”
  • Swedish: “Türkistan”
  • Tajik: “Туркистон”
  • Tatar: “Төркистан”
  • Tatar: “Төркстан”
  • Thai: “เตอร์กิสถาน”
  • Turkish: “Hazreti Türkistan”
  • Turkish: “Şehr-i Türkistan”
  • Turkish: “Türkistan”
  • Turkish: “Yasi”
  • Ukrainian: “Туркестан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Turkistan”
  • Urdu: “ترکستان (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “ترکستان”
  • Uzbek: “Turkiston shahri”
  • Uzbek: “Turkiston”
  • Uzbek: “Туркистон”
  • Venetian: “Turkistan”
  • Western Panjabi: “ترکستان، قازقستان”
  • Western Panjabi: “حضرت ترکستان”
  • Yue Chinese: “突厥斯坦 (哈薩克)”
  • Yue Chinese: “突厥斯坦”

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