Beyneu District ( kk, Бейнеу ауданы, Beineu audany) is a

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Mangystau Region Mangystau ( kk, Маңғыстау облысы, Mañğystau oblysy; russian: Мангистауская область, Mangistauskaya oblast) is a Regions of Kazakhstan, region of Kazakhstan. Its capital is Aktau (a seaport), which has a popula ...

in south-western

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. The administrative center of the district is the auyl of

Beyneu Beyneu () is a village and the administrative center of Beyneu District in Mangystau Region in western Kazakhstan. Beyneu first began to expand in the 1970s from a village to a city with the discovery of oil in the area. There is a railway statio ...

. The district's population was 68,285 in 2018. The Census population in 2009 was 46,937 and in 1999 had been 26,548.

Geography

The territory of the district is occupied by the eastern edge of the Caspian lowland with sands and salt marshes (

Dead Kultuk The Dead Kultuk ( kk, Өлі қолтық шығанағы ''Ölı qoltyq şyğanağy''; russian: Мёртвый Култук) is a bay of the Caspian Sea in the coast of Kazakhstan, west of the Ustyurt desert. The bay was known as 'Tsesarevich ...

, etc.), the eastern part is the Ustyurt Plateau with the Mynsualmas hill. Reserves of

petroleum Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crud ...

and

gas Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma). A pure gas may be made up of individual atoms (e.g. a noble gas like neon), elemental molecules made from one type of atom (e.g. oxygen), or ...

, shell rock, and construction sands have been explored in the depths. The climate is continental. The average temperature in January is -4 °C, July 25–27 °C. Precipitation falls 120–130 mm per year.

Sandstorms A dust storm, also called a sandstorm, is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions. Dust storms arise when a gust front or other strong wind blows loose sand and dirt from a dry surface. Fine particles are transporte ...

are frequent. The vegetation is semi-desert: halophytes,

artemisia (plant) ''Artemisia'' () is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 and 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae. Common names for various species in the genus include mugwort, wormwood, and sagebrush. ''Artemisia'' comprises har ...

, haloxyl thickets in places. There are

saiga antelope The saiga antelope (, ''Saiga tatarica''), or saiga, is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in ...

s, goitered gazelle,

hare Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores, and live solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth. The ge ...

wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...

fox Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush''). Twelve sp ...

, rodents and others.

History

It was formed in 1973. In 1988–1990, during the abolition of the Mangyshlak region, it was part of the Guryev region.

References

Districts of Kazakhstan Mangystau Region {{Kazakhstan-geo-stub