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Key facts
- Peak
- Aksoran
- Elevation
- 1,565 m (5,135 ft)
- Coordinates
- 48°25′26″N 75°28′16″E / 48.42389°N 75.47111°E / 48.42389; 75.47111
- Length
- 1,200 km (750 mi) E / W
- Width
- 400 km (250 mi) N/ S
- Location
- Kazakhstan
- Orogeny
- Alpine orogeny
- Rock age s
- Paleozoic , Cenozoic
- Rock type s
- Granite , limestone , schist , quartzite , sandstone
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kazakh Uplands or the Kazakh Hummocks, known in Kazakh as the Saryarqa (Cyrillic: Сарыарқа, pronounced [sɑˌrə(ʔ)ɑrˈqɑ]; lit. 'Yellow Ridge'), is a large peneplain formation extending throughout the central and eastern regions of Kazakhstan.
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. There are large deposits of coal in the north and copper in the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kazakh Uplands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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