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Beyneu

Place in Mangystau Region, Kazakhstan

Beyneu (Kazakh: Бейнеу, romanized: Beineu) is a village and the administrative center of Beyneu District in Mangystau Region in western Kazakhstan.

Beyneu began to expand in the 1970s from a village to a city with the discovery of oil in the area. There is a railway station and, further north in Kasura, there is a Chevron oil plant. The gas pipeline of the Central Asia-Center gas pipeline system metering station at Beyneu on the border with Uzbekistan. Trains from Russia to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan pass through it.

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Beyneu has a highly continental desert climate (Köppen: BWk) with very cold winters and very hot summers.

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