In the north West Kazakhstan region borders on Orenburgskaya oblast (Russia), in the east - on Aktubinskaya oblast (Kazakhstan), in the south - on Atyrauskaya (Kazakhstan) and Astrahanskaya (Russia) oblasts, in the west - on Volgogradskaya and Saratovskaya oblasts (Russia), in the north-west ? on Samarskaya oblast (Russia).