Saryshaghan

Saryshaghan (, Saryşağan) is a town in Kazakhstan located on the coast of Lake Balkhash at Latitude (DMS): 46° 7' 9 N Longitude (DMS): 73° 37' 9 E in Karaganda Region. Its population is estimated at 11,000 inhabitants.

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Settlement.official_name: Saryshaghan
Settlement.other_name: Saryşağan
Settlement.native_name: kaz. Сарышаған, Saryşağan
Settlement.pushpin_map: Kazakhstan
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 280
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Karagandy Province, Aqtogay, Kazakhstan
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name: Kazakhstan
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Karaganda Region
Settlement.established_title: Founded
Settlement.established_date: 1956
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.timezone_DST: UTC+6
Settlement.utc_offset_DST: +6
Settlement.postal_code_type: Postal code
Settlement.postal_code: 100314

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Population: 4429
Image: Сары-Шаган, МАЗ.jpg

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postal code: 100314
Commons category: Sary-Shagan (village)

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Sary Shagan is a site of the major anti-ballistic missile defense test range in the Soviet Union. The first non-nuclear interception of a ballistic missile warhead by a missile was accomplished there on 4 March 1961.