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West Kazakhstan Region is a region of Kazakhstan. The region has a population of 656,844 as of 2019. Its administrative centre is Oral , a city of about 200,000 inhabitants.

The Region was created as West Kazakhstan Oblast in Kazakh SSR of Soviet Union. Between 1962 and 1992 it was named Ural’sk Oblast and was renamed in 1993 to the old name following the independence of Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union.

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