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The highest point is the top of the mountain Khan Tengri, on the Kyrgyz and Chinese border in the Tian Shan range, with an elevation of 6,995 m (22,949 ft) (7,010 m (23,000 ft) with ice cap) above sea level; the lowest point is the bottom of the Karagiye depression at 132 m (433 ft) below sea level, in the Mangystau province east of the Caspian ...
On this side lies the highest summit of the range, the double-headed Belukha, whose summits reach 4,506 m (14,783 ft) and 4,400 m (14,400 ft) respectively, and give origin to several glaciers and glaciokarst formations (30 km 2 (12 sq mi) in aggregate area, as of 1911). [4] Altaians call it Kadyn Bazhy, but is also called Uch-Sumer. [5]
It is composed by a number of ridges roughly aligned from north to south in the northern section of the range, and from southwest to northeast in the southern. The highest point is the 901 meters (2,956 ft) high Akdym, located in the southern sector. Some of the main ridges of the Yereymentau are Altyntau —highest point 750 metres (2,460 ft ...
The name Karkaraly means "arrow-headed" in the Kazakh language [2] Karkaraly city lies at the feet of the eastern slopes of the mountains and Karagaily village, a little further east. A large sector of the range is part of the Karkaraly National Park, a 112,120 hectares (277,100 acres) protected area established in 1998. [3] [4]
Kazakhstania is mainly flat: only in the east near Karaganda are there mountains, and these only rise to 1,565 metres (5,130 feet) in the Tarbagatay Range.Although most of Kazakhstania is arid and practically no water flows from the region to the oceans, there is extensive grazing of cattle, sheep and camels on the grasslands which cover most of the region today.
The Ayr Mountains (Kazakh: Айыр тауы; Russian: Горы Айыр) are a mountain range in Karkaraly District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. [2] The Pavlodar Region border stretches at the feet of the northern slopes of the range. [3] The Zhosaly Sanatorium is located on the northwestern side of the highest mountain of the Ayr chain. [4]
The Ural Mountains (/ ˈ jʊər əl / YOOR-əl), [a] or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan. [1] The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia ...