Fun fact 5 about Atyrau
city
In 2001, a unique pedestrian suspension bridge was built in Atyrau, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest pedestrian bridge in the world.
Atyrau
Kazakhstan
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Atyrau
Kazakhstan
Country
Kazakhstan
Population
311.0K
Coordinates
47.12, 51.89
Atyrau, known until 1991 as Guryev, is a city in Kazakhstan and the capital of Atyrau Region. Atyrau is a transcontinental city, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, 2,700 kilometres west of Almaty and 351 kilometres east of the Russian city of Astrakhan.
From the “Bridges of Atyrau” section
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