Kazakh Uplands

The Kazakh threshold ( Kazakh Қазақтың ұсақ шоқысы, also Сарыарқа ) is an up to 1565 m high towering hilly ridge in the eastern part of Kazakhstan (Central Asia ).

The partly -like medium mountain towering threshold extends in an east-west direction between the city of Semipalatinsk on the Irtysh and occasionally the Kazakh threshold associated Ulutau Mountains in Schesqasghan.

In its central part rises southeast of Karaganda the massif Karkaraly with the highest mountain Aksoran. The north of the Kazakh threshold, which has numerous natural resources, is divided steppe way, the south half desert-like.

The Kazakh threshold is surrounded by the Kulunda steppes in the north- east, the Lake Balkhash in the south east, the Hunger Steppe ( Betpak - Dala ) in the south, the Ulutau in the west and the plain at Tengizsee in the northwest.

Since July 7, 2008 has been declared with Saryarka an area of the Kazakh doorstep of a World Natural Heritage by UNESCO.

• Geography (Kazakhstan )
• World Natural Heritage (Asia and Oceania)