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East Kazakhstan Region
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 Coat of arms | |
 Map of Kazakhstan, location of East Kazakhstan Region highlighted | |
| Coordinates: 49°57′N 82°37′E / 49.950°N 82.617°E | |
| Country |  Kazakhstan |
| Established | 1932 |
| Capital | Öskemen |
| Government | |
| • Akim | Ermek Kosherbayev[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 97,726 km2 (37,732 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | |
| • Total | 730,172 |
| • Density | 7.5/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Total | KZT 3,916.8 billion US$ 8.483 billion (2022) |
| • Per capita | KZT 5,353,800 US$ 11,595 (2022) |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (East) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+6 (not observed) |
| Postal codes | 070000 |
| Area codes | +7 (722), +7 (723) |
| ISO 3166 code | KZ-VOS |
| Vehicle registration | 16, F, U |
| Districts | 15 |
| Cities | 10 |
| Townships | 30 |
| Villages | 870 |
| Website | akimvko |
East Kazakhstan Region (Kazakh: Шығыс Қазақстан облысы, romanized: Şyğys Qazaqstan oblysy; Russian: Восточно-Казахстанская область, romanized: Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya oblast) is a region of Kazakhstan. It occupies the easternmost part of Kazakhstan, and includes parts of the Irtysh River, Lake Markakol, and Lake Zaysan.[4] Its administrative center is Öskemen (also known as Ust'-Kamenogorsk).[4] The region borders Altai Krai and Altai republic in Russia in the north and northeast and the People's Republic of China, via Xinjiang, in the south and southeast. The easternmost point of the Oblast is within about 50 kilometres of the westernmost tip of Mongolia;[citation needed] however, Kazakhstan and Mongolia do not share a common border, the two countries being separated by a small part of Russia and China.
The region was created by the merger of two Soviet-era Kazakhstan oblasts: the old Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya (East Kazakhstan) Oblast and Semipalatinsk Oblast. On 17 March 2022, it was announced that East Kazakhstan region would be divided, creating the Abai Region. This came into force on 8 June 2022, with eight districts of East Kazakhstan Region being transferred to the new region. The new border dividing Abai Region and East Kazakhstan region roughly corresponds to the border that existed between the two Soviet-era Oblasts.
- ^ "Ермек Кошербаев стал акимом Восточно-Казахстанской области" (in Russian). 2023-06-16.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:5was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ DOSM. "Department of Statistics Kazakhstan". stat.gov.kz. Archived from the original on 2 January 2024. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
- ^ a b "East Kazakhstan Region". The Office of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2020-08-14.