Beyneu District () is a

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Mangystau Region Mangystau (), formerly known as Mangyshlak ( Russian: ) from 1973 until 1988, is a region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Aqtau (a seaport), which has a population of 183,350 (2017); the entire Mangystau Province has a population of 745,909 (2022) ...

in south-western

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. The administrative center of the district is the

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Beyneu Beyneu () is a village and the administrative center of Beyneu District in Mangystau Region in western Kazakhstan. Beyneu began to expand in the 1970s from a village to a city with the discovery of oil in the area. There is a railway station and ...

. The district's population was 68,285 in 2018. The Census population in 2009 was 46,937 and in 1999 had been 26,548.

Geography

The territory of the district is occupied by the eastern edge of the

Caspian lowland The Caspian Depression or the Caspian Lowland is a lowland, low-lying Plain, flatland region encompassing the northern part of the Caspian Sea, the largest enclosed body of water on Earth. It is the larger northern part of the wider Aral–Casp ...

with sands and salt marshes ( Dead Kultuk, etc.), the eastern part is the

Ustyurt Plateau The Ustyurt or Ust-Yurt (from ; ; ; — flat hill, plateau) is a transboundary clay desert shared by Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The plateau's semi-nomadic population raises camels, goats, and sheep. Geography The Ustyurt is l ...

with the Mynsualmas hill. Reserves of

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and

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, shell rock, and construction sands have been explored in the depths. The climate is continental. The average temperature in January is -4 °C, July 25–27 °C. Precipitation falls 120–130 mm per year.

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are frequent. The vegetation is semi-desert:

halophyte A halophyte is a salt-tolerant plant that grows in soil or waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs, and seashores. ...

artemisia (plant) ''Artemisia'' ( ) is a large, diverse genus of plants belonging to the daisy family, Asteraceae, with almost 500 species. Common names for various species in the genus include mugwort, Artemisia absinthium, wormwood, and sagebrush. Some botanist ...

haloxylon ''Haloxylon'' is a genus of shrubs or small trees, belonging to the plant family Amaranthaceae. ''Haloxylon'' and its species are known by the common name saxaul. "Saksaul" is a common Turkic word that entered Russian through Kazakh. Descripti ...

thickets in places. There are

saiga antelope The saiga antelope (, ''Saiga tatarica''), or saiga, is a species of antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe, spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwes ...

goitered gazelle The goitered gazelle (''Gazella subgutturosa'') or black-tailed gazelle is a gazelle native to Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of Iraq and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and in nort ...

hare Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores and live Solitary animal, solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are precociality, able to fend for themselves ...

wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a Canis, canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus, subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, includin ...

fox Foxes are small-to-medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull; upright, triangular ears; a pointed, slightly upturned snout; and a long, bushy tail ("brush"). Twelve species ...

, rodents and others.

History

It was formed in 1973. In 1988–1990, during the abolition of the Mangyshlak region, it was part of the Guryev region.

References

Districts of Mangystau Region {{MangystauRegion-geo-stub