Zhanakala (, ''Jañaqala''; ) is a town in north-western

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

. It is the seat of

Zhanakala District Zhanakala (, ) is a district of West Kazakhstan Region in western Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. I ...

West Kazakhstan Region West Kazakhstan Region (; ) is a region of Kazakhstan. The region has a population of 695,000 as of July 1st, 2024. Its administrative centre is Oral (also known as Uralsk or Ural'sk), a city of about 250,000 inhabitants. The Region was created ...

. Population:

Geography

The town is located close to where the

Kushum The Kushum or Koshim (; ) is a river in the West Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan. It is long. The Kushum is a distributary of the Ural river. It flows across the Bayterek, Akzhaik and Zhanakala districts. Its water is used for agricultural irri ...

river flows into lake Birkazan.

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Climate

Zhanakala has a

cold semi-arid climate Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception. A lower bound to temperature is absolute zero, defined as 0.00K on the Kelvin scale, an absolute thermodynamic ...

(

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: ''BSk''), characterized by cold winters and hot summers.

References

Populated places in West Kazakhstan Region {{WestKazakhstanRegion-geo-stub