Turkistan is the administrative center of Turkistan Region in Kazakhstan, near the Syr Darya river, with a population of about 300,000 as of 2023. Its central landmark is the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built over the Sufi poet's tomb by Timur in the 1390s and pictured on Kazakhstan's banknotes until 2006; in 2021 the Organization of Turkic States named the city the Spiritual Capital of the Turkic World.
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Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation Band Climate Zone In the Other Atlases
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Source Ahmad Yasawi (Wikipedia)Article textQuote, Article text
He then turned this position to Abdul Khaliq Ghijduwani under Hamadani's advice and moved to Turkistan City in order to spread Islam in Turkestan.
Sources
1. Turkistan (city), Wikipedia
Infobox, Population
(2023) • City 300,000
Infobox, Population year
(2023) • City 300,000
Infobox, Latitude
43.30194°N 68.26917°E
Infobox, Longitude
43.30194°N 68.26917°E
- In Group: Cities of Central Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. Wikidata: Turkistan
- Wikidata Q848638, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Wikidata Q848638 P571, class allow-list match, knownqid pass (w-bbfill-geography5-0926)
P571 value year 416
View the Source3. GeoNames: Turkistan - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1517945
43.29458 68.25685 P PPLA KZ 10 227098 217 Asia/Almaty
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 217 m
View the Source 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 43.25, 68.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 43.25, 68.25
43.25 68.25 BSk
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