| Settlement Type: | City | ||||
| Official Name: | Oral | ||||
| Native Name: | | ||||
| Pushpin Map: | Kazakhstan#Europe | ||||
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom | ||||
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 280 | ||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kazakhstan##Location in Europe | ||||
| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Region | ||||
| Subdivision Name: | Kazakhstan | ||||
| Subdivision Name1: | West Kazakhstan Region | ||||
| Established Title: | First Settled | ||||
| Established Title2: | Founded | ||||
| Established Date2: | 1584 | ||||
| Established Title3: | Incorporated (city) | ||||
| Established Date3: | 1613 | ||||
| Leader Title: | Akim (mayor) | ||||
| Leader Name: | Murat Baimenov[1] | ||||
| Area Total Km2: | 700 | ||||
| Population As Of: | 2019 | ||||
| Population Total: | 330000 | ||||
| Population Urban: | 234184 | ||||
| Population Density Km2: | auto | ||||
| Timezone: | UTC+5 | ||||
| Utc Offset: | +5 | ||||
| Coordinates: | 51.2225°N 51.3725°W | ||||
| Elevation M: | 35 | ||||
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code | ||||
| Postal Code: | 090000 - 090013 | ||||
| Area Code: | +7 7112 [2] | ||||
| Registration Plate: | L, 07 | ||||
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Oral (kk|Орал, in Kazakh pronounced as /woˈrɑɫ/), known in Russian as Uralsk (Russian: Уральск|p=ʊˈralʲsk), is a city in northwestern 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 majority Kazakh (71%), followed by the second-largest ethnic group Russians (25%). Population:
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.[3] In September 2017, the Kazakhstan Bandy Federation bought the club.[4]
The city sent a team to the Spartakiade 2009 and the finished second.[5] All the players of the Under-23 national team in the 2013–14 season came from Oral.[6] After the Kazakhstan national bandy team took the gold medal at the 2011 Asian Winter Games, the team came back to Oral in triumph.[7]
The climate of Oral is humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfa) with long cold winters and warm, often hot summers. Summers are extremely hot considering its position north of the 51st parallel, but winters are more reminiscent of continental climates further east than Europe.