Akmola Region

Akmola Region, written Aqmola in the Statoids tables, is one of the regions, called oblys in Kazakh, of Kazakhstan. Its name is the Kazakh for white sacred place, and the region was formerly called Tselinograd. In 1997 the city of Astana was split from it and the western part of the old Qaraghandy region was merged into it, and on 10 April 1999 three raions were transferred to it from North Kazakhstan and its capital was moved from Astana to Kokshetau. The Statoids table gives its area as 146,200 square kilometres. The census of 1 October 2021 counted 782,995 residents, and the 1 January 2026 estimate on citypopulation.de is 789,608.