Frontier grid
Straight streets cross at right angles across the whole town, a disciplined nineteenth-century layout that reads clearly and evenly from above.
Minimalist map poster · Kazakhstan
44.1662° N / 80.0074° E
A tree-lined grid town in the Ili valley near the Chinese border, framed by irrigated fields and distant mountain ranges





One city, five moods
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The map
Zharkent lies in south-eastern Kazakhstan, in the broad valley of the Ili river, only a short distance from the border with China. It was founded in 1882 as a Russian frontier settlement, and the plan still reflects that origin: a regular grid of straight, tree-lined streets laid out across the flat valley floor.
Irrigation channels run through and around the town, feeding orchards and fields, and to the north the land rises toward the Dzungarian Alatau range. The Ili itself flows to the south, and the Khorgos border crossing, with its large trade and logistics zone, lies a little to the east.
The town's best-known building is the Zharkent Mosque, completed in the 1890s in a style that blends Chinese temple architecture with Central Asian forms. A Zharkent map poster shows a frontier town of orderly blocks set within a wide valley, at a crossroads between Kazakhstan and China.
Straight streets cross at right angles across the whole town, a disciplined nineteenth-century layout that reads clearly and evenly from above.
Canals and ditches run alongside streets and fields, adding fine lines of water that tie the town to the agricultural valley around it.
The walled grounds of the Zharkent Mosque form a distinct enclosed shape within the grid, marking the town's most famous landmark.
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Why Zharkent
Zharkent sits where cultures, trade routes and families have met for generations, and people with roots here often carry that mixed heritage with pride. A map of its grid and valley makes a thoughtful reminder of home.
Add a title and subtitle in your own words, adjust the coordinates, and choose Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand. The download includes 300 DPI PNG and PDF files in six sizes, without watermark.
Order the Zharkent poster| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
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