Ekibastuz is a city in Pavlodar Region in northeastern Kazakhstan, established as a village in 1899 and developed from 1948, receiving town status in 1957. Its 2009 census population was 125,012, and it sits on more than 13 billion tons of coal across a 62 square kilometre field, one of the world's largest open-cast coal basins. The nearby GRES-2 power station, with 1,000 megawatts of capacity, has the world's tallest industrial chimney at 419.7 metres.
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1. Wikidata: Ekibastuz
- Wikidata Q496442, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- In Group: Cities of Central Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source2. 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 51.75, 75.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, 75.25
51.75 75.25 Dfb
3. GeoNames: Ekibastuz - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1524325, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 1524325, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
51.72371 75.32287 P PPLA2 KZ 11 121470 203 Asia/Almaty
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