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 Elevation Band Climate Zone Connections
Capital Of
Source Almaty Region (Wikipedia)
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 Source2. GeoNames: Konayev - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1519948
43.86681 77.06304 P PPLA KZ 01 42167 497 Asia/Almaty
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 497 m
View the Source 3. 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 43.75, 77.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 43.75, 77.25
43.75 77.25 Dfa
Qonayev (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Central Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and countryView the Source Almaty Region (Wikipedia)
Capital Of: Almaty Region, Infobox: seatQuote, Capital Of: Almaty Region, Infobox: seat
Qonayev
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