Altay
Altay or Altai is a mountain range (the Altai Mountains) in East-Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together.
Altay or Altai may also refer to:
Places
In China
- Altay Prefecture (阿勒泰地区), prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
- Altay City (阿勒泰市), also spelled "Aletai", a city of Altay Prefecture
In Kazakhstan
- Altai Town, a town of regional significance in East Kazakhstan Region of Kazakhstan, until 2019 known as Zyryan or Zyryanovsk
In Mongolia
- Govi-Altai Province, an Aimag (province)
- Altai City, the capital of the Govi-Altai Aimag
- Several Sums (districts) of different Aimags:
In Russia
- Altai Republic, a federal subject of Russia
- Altai Krai, a federal subject of Russia
Language and ethnic group
- Altaic languages, a controversial, hypothetical language macro-family
- Altai people, an ethnic group
- Altai language, the language spoken by these people
People
- Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov, Kazakh Turkologist
- Altay Özurgancı, Turkish basketball player
- Fahrettin Altay, Turkish general
Other uses
- Altai, a historical novel by Wu Ming
- Altay sheep, a sheep breed
- Altay S.K., a football club from İzmir, Turkey
- Altay (tank), a Turkish main battle tank (2012) named after Fahrettin Altay
- Altai gas pipeline, a proposed natural gas pipeline between Russia and China
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See also
- Altaysky (disambiguation)
- Alt-A, a type of U.S. mortgage
- Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc., a United States legal case
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