Territory of the oblast: 300 629 sq.km.
Aktobe city is located in the Western Kazakhstan, an administrative center of the Aktyubinsk area.
Aktobe city takes the fifth place among the cities of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the number of inhabitants and is the largest city of the Western Kazakhstan.
The regional center - the city of Aktobe is a largest industrial, educational, scientific and cultural center of the western Kazakhstan, the beautiful modern, business city, with the developed of transport infrastructure, developed by the banking sector, new modern office and residential buildings, the modern airport which is in compliance with the international standards.
Industrial plants of ferroalloys, chromic connections, agricultural mechanical engineering, the X-ray equipment, etc. are operated in Aktobe city.
And the chemical, light and food industry are developed in this city.
It is called the western gate of our state.
- Aktyubinsk Chromium Compounds Plant - only producer of chromic compound in Kazakhstan, general design capacity of 103,27 thousand tons. Product range: anhydride chromic technical, chrome an oxide technical metallurgical, sodium bichromate technical, chrome sulfate (main), potassium bichromate technical, a chrome oxide technical pigmentary on the basis of the chromite ores extracted in the Aktyubinsk oblast.
- “Aktyubinsk Ferroalloy Plant”, “TNK-Kazchrom” (Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation).
- “Aktyubinsk Copper Company” LLP.
- Kazakhstan-Chinese Drilling Company “Great Wall”.
- “Aircraft Repair Plant 406-GA”.
- “Donskoy GOK”, “Kazkhrom” TNK.
- “Aktyubinsk Oil Equipment Plant” JSC.
- “Vostok Neft and Service maintenance and etc.