Number of car owners soars in Kazakhstan

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The number of car owners has gone up by nearly 15% over the past six months, according to the Statistics Committee of the Kazakh Ministry of National Economy.

520,410 vehicles were registered in January-September 2014 in the republic, that is 15,2% more than in the analogous period of previous year. South Kazakhstan region was named as the province with the biggest number of new car owners - 66,928 vehicles were registered. 65,092 and 63,355 cars were registered in Almaty city and Almaty region respectively. Kazakhstan's capital - Astana is fourth in the list with 46,678 registered cars.