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Blank Map of Kazakhstan

The outline of Kazakhstan with its lakes, plain or with region borders.

Blank Map of Kazakhstan

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Write the name of each numbered region.Answer key

  1. Mangystau
  2. Atyrau
  3. West Kazakhstan
  4. Aktobe
  5. Kostanay
  6. North Kazakhstan
  7. Akmola
  8. Pavlodar
  9. Kyzylorda
  10. Zhambyl

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each region is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a region is answered.

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  1. Mangystau In the southwest, on the Caspian Sea.
  2. Atyrau In the west, at the north end of the Caspian Sea.
  3. West Kazakhstan In the northwest corner of the country.
  4. Aktobe In the west.
  5. Kostanay In the north.
  6. North Kazakhstan The northernmost region.
  7. Akmola In the north. Astana, the capital, lies inside it.
  8. Pavlodar In the northeast.
  9. Kyzylorda In the south, east of the Aral Sea.
  10. Zhambyl In the south.

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids and points are Natural Earth's. THE DRAWING IS DATED: it has the fourteen regions of before 2018, and Kazakhstan has seventeen regions and three cities of republican rank today. The count and every name were compared on 2026-10-01 with the regional page of the Bureau of National Statistics of Kazakhstan (https://stat.gov.kz/en/region/: Astana, Almaty and Shymkent cities and seventeen regions), with the list of ISO 3166-2 codes for Kazakhstan as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:KZ: Shymkent added and South Kazakhstan renamed Turkistan in 2018, three regions added in 2022) and with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Kazakhstan (Abai from East Kazakhstan, Jetisu from Almaty Region, Ulytau from Karaganda, in Wikipedia's spellings; the bureau and ISO 3166-2 write Abay and Zhetisu). The page numbers and asks the ten regions that were not changed; the four that were are in this file for the drawing and are never asked. Astana, a city outside every region, is a shape of the drawing too small for a number and is not in this file. Spellings follow the bureau's list. Zhambyl is the bureau's, ISO 3166-2's and Statoids' spelling (http://www.statoids.com/ukz.html); Jambyl, the spelling of Natural Earth and Wikipedia, is accepted. The bureau writes Batys Kazakhstan and Soltustik Kazakhstan, the Kazakh words for west and north; the labels keep the English names West Kazakhstan and North Kazakhstan (Statoids and the English column of Wikipedia's ISO 3166-2 table), and the bureau's forms are accepted. No disputed area lies in the frame of the drawing. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Water cut out of the shapes from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on 48.9°N 66°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of Kazakhstan opens on the plain outline of the country, with Lake Balkhash and the Aral Sea as open water and its neighbors as plain land. Switch Borders on for the region lines of before 2018.

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Outline first

The sheet opens with nothing inside the outline. Press Print this map for a sheet to mark cities, rivers or deserts on. Russia is to the north, China to the east, and Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to the south. The open water at the lower left is the Caspian Sea.

Why ten regions have numbers

Borders adds the lines of the fourteen regions of before 2018; Kazakhstan has seventeen today. Numbered and Named label the ten whose borders did not change: Akmola, Aktobe, Atyrau, Kostanay, Kyzylorda, Mangystau, North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, West Kazakhstan and Zhambyl. The four areas that were split stay unlabeled.

  • The three regions made in 2022 lie inside unlabeled areas: Abay in the east, Zhetisu in the southeast and Ulytau in the middle.

Questions and answers

How many regions does Kazakhstan have?

Seventeen, and three cities that belong to no region: Astana, Almaty and Shymkent. Abay, Zhetisu and Ulytau were made in 2022. This map has the borders of before 2018, so it labels the ten regions that did not change.

What is the capital of Kazakhstan?

Astana. With Borders on it is the small shape inside Akmola, in the north, too small for a number. Almaty, the largest city, was the capital until 1997.

Which lakes are on the map?

Lake Balkhash, the long lake in the southeast, and what is left of the Aral Sea, drawn as two lakes near the border with Uzbekistan. The Caspian Sea is the open water at the lower left. Smaller lakes are not drawn.

Which countries border Kazakhstan?

Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. They are drawn as plain land without names.

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