East Kazakhstan Region

East Kazakhstan Province (, Şığıs Qazaqstan oblısı) is a province o Kazakhstan. It occupees the eastmaist pairt o Kazakhstan, alang baith sides o the Irtysh River an Lake Zaysan.  Its caipital is Oskemen (referred tae as Ust-Kamenogorsk an aw). The province borders Roushie in the north an northeast an the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region) in the sooth an sootheast. The eastmaist point o the Oblast is vera near, athin 50 kilometers or so o the wastmaist tip o Mongolie; housomeivver, Kazakhstan an Mongolie dae no share a common border, the twa kintras being separatit bi a sma pairt o Roushie an Cheenae. It an aw borders the Kazakh Provinces o Pavlodar (tae the north wast), Karagandy (tae the wast) an Almaty Province (tae the sooth).

The population o the province is 1,418,300 (accordin tae the Agency o Statistics), o which 318,800 (as of 4/1/2011) live in the caipital. The aurie haes mony Roushies an Ukrainians; the caipital itsel haes mair o those twa groups than Kazakhs themselves. The aurie is 283,300 in square kilometers.

The province wis creatit bi the merger o twa Soviet-era Kazakhstan oblasts: the auld Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya (East Kazakhstan) Oblast an Semipalatinsk Oblast.

Natur
The Province occupees vera diverse range o geographic an climatic regions wi Altai Muntains in the east an the eastren margins o Kazakh steppes in the wast o the Province. 

Demographics
55% o the population is ethnic Kazakh an 41% is ethnic Roushie.:ru:Восточно-Казахстанская область

See an aw
 Semipalatinsk Test Steid

References

Freemit airtins
Offeecial regional admeenistration wabsteid 


Category:Regions o Kazakhstan