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| Balkash, city, Kazakhstan |
| (bäl-käsh´) (KEY) , city (1989 pop. 86,609), in Kazakhstan, on the north shore of Lake Balkash. A railroad terminus and port, it has fish processing and copper-smelting industries. Balkash was founded as Bertys in 1929 and was renamed in 1936. |
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