Altai

Altay or Altai may refer to:

Places

• Altai Mountains, in East-Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together

In China

• Altay Prefecture (阿勒泰地区), prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
• Altay City (阿勒泰市), also spelled "Aletai", a city of Altay Prefecture

In Mongolia

• Govi-Altai Province, an Aimag (province)
• Altai City, the capital of the Govi-Altai Aimag
• Several Sums (districts) of different Aimags:
  • Altai, Govi-Altai
  • Altai, Bayan-Ölgii
  • Altai, Khovd

In Russia

• Altai Republic, a federal subject of Russia
• Altai Krai, a federal subject of Russia

Language and ethnic group

• Altaic languages, a controversial, hypothetical language macro-family
• Altai people, an ethnic group
  • Altai language, the language spoken by these people

People

• Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov, Kazakh Turkologist
• Altay Kahraman, Swiss footballer
• Altay Özurgancı, Turkish basketball player
• Fahrettin Altay, Turkish general

Other uses

• Altai, a historical novel by Wu Ming
• Altay sheep, a sheep breed
• Altay S.K., a football club from İzmir, Turkey
• Altay (tank), a Turkish main battle tank (2012) named after Fahrettin Altay
• Altai gas pipeline, a controversial proposed natural gas pipeline between Russia and China

See also

• Altaysky (disambiguation)
• Alt-A, a type of U.S. mortgage
• Computer Associates International, Inc. v. Altai, Inc., a United States legal case