Atyrau Region
Atyrau (, ', أتيراو, ; , ), known until 1991 as Guryev (, ), is a city in Kazakhstan, and the capital of Atyrau Region. Atyrau is a transcontinental city in Eurasia, located at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea, in both Europe and Asia, west of Almaty and east of the Russian city of Astrakhan.