Tarbagatay District
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Tarbagatay is a district
Districts of Kazakhstan
|The provinces of Kazakhstan are divided into 170 districts . The districts are listed below, by province:-Akmola:*Akkol District*Arshaly District*Astrakhan District*Atbasar District*Bulandy District*Burabay District |The provinces of Kazakhstan are divided into 170 districts (pl. ,audandar). The...

 of East Kazakhstan Province in eastern Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

. The administrative center of the district is the town of Aksuat
Aksuat
Aksuat is a village in Tarbagatay District in the East Kazakhstan Province. It is the capital of the district.-Toponomy:...

.

Climate

Very continental. Winter is cold (in January average temperature –22°С, –30°С) and summer is hot (in July average temperature +25°С, +35°С). Very poor precipitation (200–300 mm/year) mostly in winter season

Toponym

The name Tarbagatay derives from Mongolian (Tarbagan marmot
Tarbagan Marmot
The Tarbagan marmot is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is found in China , northern and western Mongolia, and Russia .. In the Mongolian Altai the range overlaps with that of the Gray Marmot...

) as marmot mountains

Demographics

Ethnic groups (2009):
  • Kazakh
    Kazakhs
    The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....

     98.7%
  • Russian
    Russians
    The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

     1.1%
  • Tatar
    Tatars
    Tatars are a Turkic speaking ethnic group , numbering roughly 7 million.The majority of Tatars live in the Russian Federation, with a population of around 5.5 million, about 2 million of which in the republic of Tatarstan.Significant minority populations are found in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,...

     0.1%
  • German
    Germans
    The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

     0.1%
  • Others : 0.1%

Economy

Agrocultural (meat, fish, flour, bread)

GDP 503 900 000 tenge ~ $3 427 900 (2008)

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