Qonayev

Also known as Kapchagay, Kapshagay, Qonaev, Ili, Fort Ili, Ilijsk, Iliysk, Novoilijsk

Qonaev ( ), also known as Konayev () and by other names, is a city in southeastern Kazakhstan. It is the seat of government for the Almaty Region. The population was and

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Qonayev is a city in Kazakhstan, serving as the capital of Almaty Region. It was established in 1970 and has a population of 61,767. The city is situated next to the Kapchagay Reservoir and operates within the UTC+06:00 time zone. Its official name is Қапшағай, Қонаев, and it is twinned with Osmangazi.

The local postal code is 040800, and the dialing code is 72772. The city’s elevation is recorded as 507 meters in one dataset and 497 meters in another. Current weather observations indicate a temperature of 15.43 degrees, humidity at 45%, and air pressure of 1018. The city is administered by the Qonaev city administration.

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It sits within the topics Cities and towns in Kazakhstan, Populated places established in the 1960s and Populated places in Almaty Region.

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Place details

Locality: Қонаев
Region: Алматы облысы
Country: Қазақстан
Population: 42,167
Timezone: Asia/Almaty

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Air quality

65US AQIModerate

PM2.5: 19.7 µg/m³
PM10: 56.5 µg/m³

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Qonaev
Settlement.other_name: KapchagayKonayev
Settlement.image_skyline: Kapchagay lake.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 250px
Settlement.image_caption: On Lake Kapshagai
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Kapchagay, Kazakhstan.gif
Settlement.pushpin_map: Kazakhstan
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: top
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 280
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Qonayev in Kazakhstan
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Kazakhstan
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Almaty Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.leader_title: Akim
Settlement.leader_name: Askhat Berdikhanov
Settlement.unit_pref: Imperial

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Қонаев
Country: Kazakhstan
Located in: Qonaev city administration
Population: 8341
Time zone: UTC+06:00
Body of water: Kapchagay Reservoir
Capital of: Almaty Region
Official website: kapshagay.gov.kz
Image: Kapchagay lake.jpg
Dialing code: 72772

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Commons category: Qonaev
native label: Қонаев
postal code: 040800
twinned administrative body: Osmangazi
P12749: fine-structure constant
inception: 1970-00-00

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Qonaev ( ), also known as Konayev () and by other names, is a city in southeastern Kazakhstan. It is the seat of government for the Almaty Region. The population was and

==Names== is the Latin form of the Kazakh name ; is the romanization of the Russian name . Both derive from Dinmukhamed Kunaev, a former first secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR during Soviet rule. The city was renamed in his honor on 17 March 2022.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qonayev” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.