Baikonur is a city in Kazakhstan built to house the administrative offices and workers of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, with 39,341 residents at the 2020 census. Founded under Soviet rule as the closed city of Leninsk and renamed Baikonur in 1995, it sits within a roughly 90 by 85 kilometer territory that Russia leases from Kazakhstan and administers until 2050 under a bilateral agreement; it remains a closed city requiring Roscosmos permits for foreign visitors, and its fortunes have risen and fallen with Soviet and Russian space launch activity for more than half a century.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Baikonur (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: population_totalQuote, Infobox: population_total
39,341
2. Baikonur (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 45.63, longitude 63.314
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 100 m
P2046 (area)
area 54975.0 sq km
P571 (inception)
inception 1955
- In Group: Cities of Central Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source3. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 45.63,63.314
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 106.0
4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 45.75, 63.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 45.75, 63.25
45.75 63.25 BWk
5. GeoNames: Baikonur - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1521368Quote, cities500 record 1521368
45.61667 63.31667 P PPLA KZ 08 70000 730 91 Asia/Qostanay
Wikidata: Baikonur
Wikidata Q165413, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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