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4 unusual facts about Atyrau Province


Boundaries between continents

Kazakhstan is also a transcontinental country by this definition, its West Kazakhstan and Atyrau provinces extending on either side of the Ural River.

Geography of Kazakhstan

At the northern end of the sea, more than 10,000 square kilometres of land in Atyrau Province have been flooded.

Iranian Kazakhs

The final wave has been ongoing since 2007 and consists of economic migrants arriving from the western provinces of Atyrau and Mangystau to the cities of Gorgan, Bandar Torkaman and Gonbad-e Qabus.

Kurnakovite

Kurnakovite, was first described by Godlevsky in 1940 for an occurrence in the Inder borate deposits in Atyrau Province, Kazakhstan, and is named for Russian mineralogist and chemist Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov (1860–1941).



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