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Regions

Mangystau

A remote desert region on the Caspian Sea in the west of Kazakhstan, with chalk canyons, ancient sea floors and underground mosques.

A hiker and a dog on a cliff edge above the dry Mangystau plain, with flat-topped buttes rising from a pale salt flat
Photo: Максат79 / commons.wikimedia.org / CC BY-SA 4.0

Landmarks in Mangystau