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An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
A satellite image of the range (Sentinel-2 L1C data, modified) The Ulutau is one of the subranges of the Kazakh Upland system. The range stretches from north to south for about 200 kilometers (120 mi). Its highest point is 1,131 meters (3,711 ft) high Akmeshit. The mountains are rocky, deeply dissected by ravines and have an arid look. [1][2][3]
The Altai Mountains (/ ɑːlˈtaɪ /), also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters. The massif merges with the Sayan Mountains in the northeast, and gradually becomes lower in the southeast, where it ...
2. Bayanaul. Pavlodar Province. 50°49′N 75°40′E / 50.817°N 75.667°E / 50.817; 75.667. 684. 1985. located in southeastern Pavlodar Province, 140 kilometers from the industrially developed city of Ekibastuz, on the outskirts of the Central Kazakh Uplands. The park was founded in 1985, making it Kazakhstan's first national park.
Tigers now occupy less than 7% of the range they used to, and in Kazakhstan, systematic hunting and a reduction of tiger prey saw the big cats declared extinct in the Caspian region in the 1950s.
Karatau Mountains. Katutau mountains. Khantau. Küngöy Ala-Too Range. Kyrgyz Ala-Too Range.
The range extends for about 420 kilometres (260 mi) in a roughly NW/SE direction just north of the Syr Darya. The Muyunkum Desert lies to the north of the range. The Karatau is the westernmost prolongation of the Tian Shan. The summits of the mountains are smooth and the slopes are cut by snow-fed rivers. [3]
Geography of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia, with a small portion in Eastern Europe. [1] With an area of about 2,724,900 square kilometers (1,052,100 sq mi) Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger than Alaska. The country borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and ...