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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan arboretum

Botanical Garden

Demir Berisha · CC BY-SA 4.0

2% trees around it and 97 species recorded.

29Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km2%
  • wild within 10 km64%
  • species recorded97
  • Altitude349 m

The forest around

2% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 0%Grassland 35%Water 2%Bare ground 4%Cropland 3%Built-up 56%Trees 3%Grassland 22%Wetland 2%Water 5%Bare ground 11%Cropland 5%Built-up 52%Trees 7%Grassland 42%Wetland 1%Water 5%Bare ground 7%Cropland 11%Built-up 26%Trees 10%Grassland 50%Wetland 2%Water 2%Bare ground 2%Cropland 8%Built-up 25%2%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km3%
  • 3–6 km7%
  • 6–10 km10%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees3%
  • Grassland22%
  • Wetland2%
  • Water5%
  • Bare ground11%
  • Cropland5%
  • Built-up52%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

97 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Russian silverberry
Russian silverberryElaeagnus angustifolia16 recordsGeorg Slickers · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western boxelder
Western boxelderAcer negundo13 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tatar Maple
Tatar MapleAcer tataricum9 recordsLe.Loup.Gris · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tuberous pea
Tuberous peaLathyrus tuberosus9 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oxytropis pilosa
Oxytropis pilosaOxytropis pilosa7 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Bird's-foot-trefoil
Common Bird's-foot-trefoilLotus corniculatus6 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Nonea pulla
Nonea pullaNonea pulla6 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lucerne
LucerneMedicago sativa6 recordsAmédée Masclef · Public domain
Field Bindweed
Field BindweedConvolvulus arvensis5 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Black henbane
Black henbaneHyoscyamus niger5 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
White Poplar
White PoplarPopulus alba5 recordsJakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 3.0
Erythronium sibiricum
Erythronium sibiricumErythronium sibiricum4 recordsBorealis55 · Public domain

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

29out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 2%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 64%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 97Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 349 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-13°-21°20 mm
  2. Feb-10°-19°20 mm
  3. Mar-1°-10°27 mm
  4. Apr12°0°29 mm
  5. May21°7°35 mm
  6. Jun26°13°41 mm
  7. Jul27°15°55 mm
  8. Aug26°13°28 mm
  9. Sep18°6°21 mm
  10. Oct8°-1°33 mm
  11. Nov-2°-9°34 mm
  12. Dec-10°-18°27 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Botanical Garden.

Botanical Garden in Astana, Kazakhstan

Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Kazakhstan, 349 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 2% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 64% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

97 species have been recorded around it: 39 plants, 12 fungi, 45 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Russian silverberry, Western boxelder and Tatar Maple.

The best time to walk is in September.

A view of Nur-Sultan's Botanical Garden
Demir Berisha · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 65shelters and huts within 6 kmТёмная беседка, Беседка Ak Bylak and 63 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 536car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 144places to stay within 10 kmШағын, Jumbaktas, Казжол and 141 more
  • 122restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Taldykol Lake0.6 km² · 2.6 kmBol'shoy Taldykol'11 km² · 6.0 kmMaybalyq Köli26 km² · 13 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Bayterek2.7 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Botanical Garden Nur-Sultan city unknown path
DiamondMoore · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rose Garden - NATO Vista Bridge 3 NBG LR
PumpkinSky · CC BY-SA 4.0
Botanical triangles
Yersyn Yes · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q104866948) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species530 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesLakeyas, Viewyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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