Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Search My Trip EnglishChinese
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
Taiwan's window to the world

Ustyurt Plateau

Kazakhstan

The Ustyurt or Ust-Yurt (from Kazakh, Uzbek: Ustyurt, Turkmen: Üstyurt, Karakalpak: Ústirt — flat hill, plateau) is a transboundary clay desert shared by Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The plateau's semi-nomadic population raises camels, goats, and sheep.

Data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other plateaus in Kazakhstan