Qonayev is a city in Almaty Region, southeastern Kazakhstan, on the shore of the Kapshagai Reservoir on the Ili River, about 76 kilometers north of Almaty. Built in the 1960s around the reservoir's hydroelectric dam and long known as Kapchagay (Kapshagai), it was renamed Qonayev in March 2022 in honor of former Communist Party leader Dinmukhamed Kunaev and made the administrative capital of Almaty Region under Kazakhstan's 2022 reorganization. Its 2021 census population was 54,245.
Facts
Founding Year Population Estimate Year Latitude43.883333 degrees north 1 Sources
1. Qonayev (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1970-00-00T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 61,767 (2019)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 43.883333, longitude 77.083333
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 61767 (2019)
View the SourceQonayev (Wikipedia)
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