The Kendirli Bay (Kazakh: Кендірлі шығанағы; also transliteratd from Russian sources as Kenderli Bay) is a bay of the southeastern Caspian Sea in the territory of Karakiya District, Kazakhstan, north of the Garabogazköl lagoon. Its northernshore is on the Mangyshlak Peninsula.

Kendirli Bay
Кендірлі (Kazakh)
Kendirli Bay is located in Caspian Sea
Kendirli Bay
Kendirli Bay
Location Kazakhstan
Coordinates42°40′57″N 52°41′42″E / 42.68250°N 52.69500°E / 42.68250; 52.69500
Surface area18,000 square kilometres (6,900 sq mi)


Kendirli bay is at the top of the image

It features the Kendirli Spit. Populated places: Aksu, Fetisovo.

On its islands and on the spit there is the only habitat of the Caspian seal in the mid-Caspian Sea,[1] and the Nature Reserve for Conservation of the Caspian Seal (Pusa caspica).[2]

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