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Kent Range (Kazakh: Кент тауы) is a range of mountains in Karkaraly District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. [1] Karkaraly city lies 20 kilometers (12 mi) to the northwest of the northern slopes of the Kent Mountains. Part of the range is included in the Karkaraly National Park, a protected area established in 1998.
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 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 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 ...
' Yellow Ridge '), is a large peneplain formation extending throughout the central and eastern regions of Kazakhstan. [1] Administratively the Kazakh Uplands stretch across the East Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Akmola, Ulytau and Karaganda regions. Several notable cities, including the country's capital, Astana, are located in the uplands.
The range has three separate ridges: Kanchingiz (Қаншыңғыс), highest point 1,152 meters (3,780 ft) in the northern section, the Chingiztau proper in the middle, highest point 1,119 meters (3,671 ft), and Akshatau (Ақшатау) in the southern section, where there is highest point of the whole range system 1,304 meters (4,278 ft ...
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 the Russian Federation, 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 ...