West Kazakhstan region is located in the north-west of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The territory is 151,339 km2, which is 5.6 % of the area Kazakhstan. According to this indicator, the region ranks 8th in the country.
The population is 689 000 people. (as of march, 2023). 387,3 (56.2 %) people live in the city, 301.7 (43.8%) live in rural areas.
The region was established on March 10, 1932 as the West Kazakhstan region The Cossack ASSR as part of the RSFSR. On May 3, 1962, it was renamed the Ural Region. And in July 1992, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan renamed the Ural region into the West Kazakhstan Region.
It borders with two regions of Kazakhstan and five regions of Russia:
in the north-with Orenburg region The Russian Federation
in the east - with the Aktobe region of the Republic of Kazakhstan
in the south - with the Atyrau region of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Astrakhan Of the Russian Federation
in the west-with Volgograd and Saratov regions The Russian Federation
in the north-west-with the Samara region Of the Russian Federation
The total length of the border is 2,423 km.
The administrative center is a city Uralsk.
Currently, the system of administrative-territorial structure of the region includes 12 administrative districts, 156 aul (rural) districts, 3 settlement districts, one city (Uralsk) of regional significance and one city (Aksai) of district significance, 475 rural settlements.
The region consists of 12 districts and 1 city of regional subordination:
Akzhaiksky district (Chapaevsky) - village Chapaev
Bokeyordinsky district (Urdinsky) - village Saykhin
Burlinsky district — a city Aksai
Zhangalinsky district (Dzhangalinsky) - village Zhangala (Zhanakala)
Zhanibeksky district (Dzhanybeksky) - village Zhanibek
Bayterek district-a village Peremetnoe
Kaztalovsky district-a village Kaztalovka
Karatobinsky district-a village Karatobe
Syrymsky district (Dzhambeytinsky) - Zhympity aul (Jambeyty)
Taskalinsky district (Kamensky) - village Taskala (Kamenka)
Terektinsky district-the village of Fedorovka
Chingirlausky district-a village Chingirlau
city Uralsk
