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Qaraghandy

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Qaraghandy, oblysy (region), central Kazakhstan. It lies mostly in the Kazakh Uplands in a dry steppe zone, rising gradually in elevation eastward to a maximum in the Karkaraly Mountains of 5,115 feet (1,559 m). The principal rivers, the Nura and Sarysu, are in the west, in the Musbel lowland. The climate is continental (tending to extremes) and dry, with severe winters, marked by prolonged snowstorms and hurricane-force winds. The principal economic resource of the region is the Qaraghandy coal basin, although manganese, tungsten, molybdenum, and lead and zinc are also mined; other mineral resources of the region include barite, nickel, ...(100 of 264 words)

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