Kazakhstan

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Қазақстан Республикасы

Республика Казахстан
Republic of Kazakhstan


Official flag	Official Coat of Arms

National information

National motto:

(none)

National anthem:

My Kazakhstan

About the people

Official languages:

Kazakh, Russian

Population: (# of people)

- Total:

15,217,711 (ranked 62)

- Density:

5.4/km² per km²

Geography / Places

Here is the country on a map of the world.

Capital city:

Astana

Largest city:

Almaty

Area

- Total:

2,724,900 km² (ranked 9)

- Water:

n/a km² (1.7%%)

Politics / Government

Established:

December 25th (1991)

Leaders:

President Nursultan Nazarbayev
Prime Minister Karim Masimov

Economy / Money

Currency:
(Name of money)

Tenge (KZT)

International information

Time zone:

+5/+6

Telephone dialing code:

Internet domain:

.kz

Map of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is a country in Eurasia. Before the end of the Soviet Union, it was called "Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic". The president of the country since 1991 is called Nursultan Nazarbayev. Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. Almaty was the capital before 1998.

Russia leases (rents) the land for the Baykonur Cosmodrome (site of Russian spacecraft launches) from Kazakhstan.

1 Geography
- 1.1 Location
2 Pop culture
3 National anthem
4 Other websites

[change] Geography

Kazakhstan is "not landlocked", meaning it does touch areas of water such as oceans, and "lakes" but it is one of the countries that border the Caspian Sea, which boats can use to get to the Atlantic Ocean by sailing through the Mediterranean Sea.

[change] Location

Russia has the longest border with Kazakhstan. Other countries next to Kazakhstan are China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.

[change] Pop culture

A film parodying the Republic of Kazakhstan called Borat:Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was made by Sacha Baron Cohen. He played a fictional Kazakh journalist named Borat Sagdiyev, although Baron Cohen is actually from the United Kingdom. The journalist was supposed to be making a movie depicting Kazakhs. The film showed Kazakhs as primitive prostitutes and rapists. The film made £27,000,000 (27 million pounds). ^[1]