Almaty
About Almaty
Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. It is located in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains in southern Kazakhstan, near the border with Kyrgyzstan. The city is nestled at an elevation of 700–900 metres, with the Big Almaty and Small Almaty rivers running through it, originating from the surrounding mountains and flowing into the plains. Almaty is the second-largest city in Central Asia and the fourth-largest in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
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There was a flight from Almaty to Balkhash and it was a two hour flight, but if you wanted to go by train it would take 157 hours, because there was no direct train between the two cities. You had to go from Almaty all the way up to Novosibirsk in Siberia, all the way back down again.
from 529: No Such Thing As A Badger Love Note, 2024-05-02 at 00:12:18 · read transcript
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It's just green. The whole thing, there's just no snow at all. So they're going to be using a lot of fake snow as well. They won it off Almaty, which is Kazakhstan or, yeah, Almati and Kazakhstan. Their slogan to rub it in was keeping it real, because they were like, we've actually got snow for this Winter Olympics. They started. still lost. Do you know in 1960 for the 1960 Winter Olympics, one of the cities that bid was Karachi in Pakistan?
No Such Thing As A Mean Butterfly, 2018-02-16 · listen
There's just no snow at all, and so they're going to be using a lot of fake snow as well, and they won it off Almaty, which is Kazakhstan, or yeah, Almaty in Kazakhstan, and their slogan to rub it in was keeping it real, because they were like, we've actually got snow for this Winter Olympics, and they still lost.
204: No Such Thing As A Mean Butterfly, 2018-02-16 · listen
That QI, or No Such Thing as a Fish, once covered that the furthest point on Earth from the ocean is in Urumqi, on the Kazakhstan-Chinese border, otherwise known as the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility. This is a mere few hundred kilometers from Kok Tobe in Almaty. I'm going to claim that Kok Tobe is the Beatles' pole of inaccessibility, being the furthest point that a Beatles monument exists from a performance by any Beatle.
Little Fish: Swallowing A Fabergé Egg, 2026-05-24 · listen
Coordinates: 43.2333, 76.9500