The Tengizi Islands (also Tengiz Islands) are an archipelago in Korgalzhyn District, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan.

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Tengizi Islands
Island group
NASA picture of eastern Tengiz Lake with the Tengizi Islands.
Tengizi Islands
Coordinates: 50°21′N 69°03′E
Country	Kazakhstan
Body of water	Lake Tengiz
Region	Akmola Region
Population
• Total	uninhabited
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Kourgaldzhin and Tengiz Lakes
Designated	11 October 1976
Reference no.	107[1]

Located in Lake Tengiz, the archipelago is about 37 kilometres (23 mi) long and 16 kilometres (10 mi) wide. It is formed by roughly 70 small and medium-sized islands. These form a compact cluster off the deeply indented eastern shore of the lake.[2]

Ecology

The Tengizi Islands are part of the Korgalzhyn Nature Reserve.[3] They are an important Ramsar site together with the mostly muddy waterways between them and the adjoining wetlands; they are the breeding site of 318 bird species, including 22 endangered birds. These islands mark the northern limit of the habitat of the greater flamingo.[4]

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