East Kazakhstan Province

Infobox Province of Kazakhstan
Kazakh_name = Шығыс Қазақстан облысы
lat_deg = 49 | lat_min = 57 | lat_sec = 0
lon_deg = 82 | lon_min = 37 | lon_sec = 0

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ISOAbbrev = VOS
capital = Oskemen
largest_city =
governor = Zhanibek Karibzhanov
raions = 15
cities = 10
towns = 30
villages = 870
area = 283300
area_source =
population = 1442000
pop_date = 2005-01-01
pop_ref = [ [http://www.languages-study.com/demography/kazakhstan.html Population of Kazakhstan] ]
utc_offset = +6
PLZ = 070000
area_code = +7 (722), +7 (723)
licence_plate = F
Website = http://akimvko.gov.kz/

East Kazakhstan Province ( _kz. Шығыс Қазақстан облысы) is a province of Kazakhstan. It occupies the easternmost part of Kazakhstan, along both sides of the Irtysh River and Lake Zaysan. Its capital is Oskemen (also referred to as Ust-Kamenogorsk). The province borders Russia in the north and northeast and the People's Republic of China (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region) in the south and southeast. The easternmost point of the Oblast is also very near, within 50 kilometers or so of the westernmost tip of Mongolia; however, Kazakhstan and Mongolia do not share a common border, the two countries being separated by a small part of Russia and China.

The population of the province is 1,442,000, of which 320,000 live in the capital. The area has many Russians and Ukrainians; the capital itself has more of those two groups than Kazakhs themselves. The area is 283,300 in square kilometers.

The province was created by the merger of two Soviet-era Kazakhstan oblasts, the old Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya (East Kazakhstan) Oblastand Semipalatinsk Oblast.

See also

* Semipalatinsk Test Site.

References

External links

* [http://akimvko.gov.kz/ Official regional administration website]