Karaganda Region

Karagandy Province () is a province o Kazakhstan. Its caipital is Karaganda. The population o the province is 1,375,000; that o the ceety is 437,000.

History
The province wis the steid o intense coal minin durin the days o the Soviet Union an hae been the steid o several gulag forcit labor camps an aw. Follaein Warld War II, Joseph Stalin, leader o the Soviet Union, haed mony ethnic Germans deportit tae the aurie.

Geography
Wi an aurie o 428,000 sq. km, Karagandy Province is the lairgest province. Awtho it doesna touch the borders o ony kintra, it touches nearly ivery ither province. Thay are: Aktobe Province tae the wast; Kostanay Province tae the northwast; Akmola Province tae the north; Pavlodar Province tae the Northeast; East Kazakhstan Province tae the east; Almaty Province tae the sootheast; Jambyl Province an Sooth Kazakhstan Province tae the sooth; an Kyzylorda Province tae the soothwast. The Ishim (Esil) River, a tributary o the Irtysh River, begins in Karagandy Province.

The aurie is arid an flat, gien tae plains wi occasional hills an saisonal streams. Karkaralinsk Nature Park, coverin 90,300 hectares, is locatit in the province.

Demographics
46.9% o the population is ethnic Roushie an 32.6% is ethnic Kazakh. The minorities are Ukrainian (7.2%) an German (3.1%).:ru:Карагандинская область

Sister ceeties
  Ulsan, Republic o Korea (2010)

Freemit airtins
 Regional admeenistration wabsteid
 Karagandy Province Chamber o Commerce an Industry
 Karagandy Province Customs

References


Category:Regions o Kazakhstan