Sunkar ( kk, Сұңқар) is a mountain in
Moiynkum District
Moiynkum ( kk, Мойынқұм ауданы, ) is a district of Jambyl Region in south-eastern Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the auyl of Moiynkum.
Geography
The district is named after the Moiynkum Desert. Parts of it ...
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Jambyl Region
Jambyl or Zhambyl Region ( kk, Жамбыл облысы, translit=Jambyl oblysy; russian: Жамбылская область, Zhambylskaya oblast), formerly known as Dzhambul Region (russian: Джамбульская область, Dzhambulska ...
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ...
.
Geography
Sunkar rises in the northern flank of the
Khantau
Khantau ( kz, Хантау; russian: Горы Хантау) is a massif located in Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan.
Khantau village, Moiynkum District, lies to the west of the NW slopes. There are ancient petroglyphs in the mountains.
Geography
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massif, the northern section of the
Aitau, part of the
Chu-Ili Range
The Chu-Ili Range ( kk, Шу-Іле таулары) is a range of mountains in Kazakhstan. Administratively it is part of the Almaty and Zhambyl regions.
The M36 Highway skirts the range along its northeastern flank. Google Earth
Geography
Th ...
. With an elevation , it is the highest summit of the range.
[''Kazakhstan National Encyclopedia'' / Ch. ed. B.O. Jakyp. — Almaty: « Kazakh encyclopedia» ZhSS, 2011. ISBN 9965-893-64-0(T.Z.),ISBN 9965-893-19-5]
See also
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Geography of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia (with 14% of the country in Eastern Europe). With an area of about Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger than Alaska. The country borders Turkmen ...
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Чу-Илийские горы - Алматы
Chu-Ili Range
Mountains of Kazakhstan