Oral, West Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan
🇰🇿 Oral (Kazakh: Орал (listen)), known in Russian as Uralsk (Уральск), is a city in north-western Kazakhstan, at the confluence of the Ural and Chagan rivers close to the Russian border. As it is located on the western bank of the Ural river, it is considered geographically in Europe. It is the capital of the West Kazakhstan Region. The ethnic composition is dominated by Kazakhs (71%) and Russians (25%).
Sport FC Akzhayik are a Kazakhstani football club based in Petr Atoyan Stadium.
Bandy is the principal sport in the city. Akzhayik Sports Club, based in the Yunost Stadium, is the only professional team in the country and plays in the second highest division of Russia. In September 2017, the Kazakhstan Bandy Federation bought the club.
The city sent a team to the Spartakiade 2009 and the finished second. All the players of the Under-23 national team in the 2013–14 season came from Oral. After the Kazakhstan national bandy team took the gold medal at the 2011 Asian Winter Games, the team came back to Oral in triumph.
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Oral has a population of over 330,000 people. Oral also forms the centre of the wider West Kazakhstan Region which has a population of over 656,844 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Oral has links with:
🇰🇿 Atyrau, Kazakhstan 🇷🇺 Kostroma, Russia 🇹🇷 Manisa, Turkey 🇷🇺 Orenburg, Russia 🇨🇿 Ostrava, Czech Republic 🇷🇴 Ploieşti, Romania🏴 Basingstoke 51.262
🇮🇷 Dowlatābād 51.683
Locations Near: Oral 51.3667,51.2333
🏴 East Grinstead 51.13,51.13 d: 20.1
🏴 Lewes 50.867,50.867 d: 53.7
🇷🇺 Buzuluk 52.25,52.783 d: 182.6
🇷🇺 Novokuybyshevsk 49.941,53.094 d: 228.6
🇷🇺 Tolyatti 49.421,53.509 d: 285.4
🇫🇷 Aubervilliers 48.917,48.917 d: 311.3
🇷🇺 Syzran 48.479,53.158 d: 290.7
Antipodal to: Oral -128.633,-51.233
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15837.3
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 14793.8
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 14455.3
🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 15714.7
🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 15714.7
🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 15629.3
🇨🇱 Coyhaique -72.067,-45.567 d: 15897.1
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 14351
🇨🇱 Temuco -72.667,-38.733 d: 15519.7
🇨🇱 San Pedro de la Paz -73.1,-36.833 d: 15420.6