Mangistau region is a region in the South-West of Kazakhstan, formerly called Mangyshlak.

From the West it is washed by the Caspian sea-the coast is issued in the West in the form of Mangyshlak Peninsula with deep gulfs Dead Kultuk, Mangyshlak, Kazakh, Kenderli. There are Seal Islands in the Caspian sea. The Northern part with extensive salt marshes is located on the Caspian lowland, the southern part is occupied by Mangystau mountains (Otpan, 532 m), Ustyurt plateau, Mangyshlak and Kenderli-Kayasan (in the South). Several depressions lie below sea level, including the lowest point of Kazakhstan — Karagiye depression on Mangyshlak Peninsula — -132 m.

Most of the territory of the area occupied by sagebrush-salt desert with vegetation on brown soils: the surface is partially covered with salt marshes, growing solonetz and Sands with extremely rare greenery.

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