Arys: facts

At a glance

• Country: Kazakhstan
• Region: Turkistan
• Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
• Population: approximately 36,285
• Coordinates: 42.4301° N, 68.8087° E
• Time zone: Asia/Almaty (UTC+05:00)
• Currency: Tenge (KZT)
• Distance to the capital, Astana: 993 km (617 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Shymkent International Airport (CIT): 55 km (34 mi), straight line
• Hazrat Sultan International Airport (HSA): 100 km (62 mi), straight line
• Tashkent-Khumo International Airport (TVT, Uzbekistan): 133 km (83 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Temirlanovka: 41 km (26 mi)
• Shaul'der: 54 km (33 mi)
• Shymkent: 66 km (41 mi)
• Sayram: 79 km (49 mi)
• Shayan: 82 km (51 mi)
• Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Shymkent, 66 km (41 mi)