Atyrau Region

Atyrau Oblast () is a province o Kazakhstan. It is situatit in the wast o the kintra aroond the northeast o the Caspian Sea. Its caipital is the ceety o Atyrau, wi a population o 142,500 fowk; the province itsel haes 480,000 fowk. Kazakhs mak up mair nor 80% o population.

Geography
Wi an aurie o 118,600 square kilometers, it is the seicont-smawest province in Kazakhstan (Sooth Kazakhstan Province is the smawest). It borders the neighborin kintra Roushie tae the west, as well as the fellae Kazakh provinces Aktobe (tae the east), Mangystau (tae the sooth), an the Wast Kazakhstan Province (tae the north).

A lairge pairt o the province is situatit in the ile-rich Caspian Depression; acause o this, mony ile wells hae been drilled in the Tengiz Field an Kashagan Field auries. An pipeline runs frae Atyrau tae Samara, where it joins the Roushie pipeline seestem. A separate ile pipeline runs frae the Tengiz field tae the Roushie Black Sea port o Novorossiisk.

Atyrau is traversed bi the northeasterly line o equal latitude an langitude.

Freemit airtins
 Offeecial wabsteid 

References
 National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition.


Category:Regions o Kazakhstan