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Astana is home to several professional ice hockey teams. The Barys Astana, a founding member of the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008 and based in the Barys Arena. [79] The Nomad Astana and HC Astana play in the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship. The Snezhnye Barsy of the Junior Hockey League is a junior team of the Barys Astana. [80]
Kazakhstan, [d] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [e] is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a small portion situated in Eastern Europe. [f] It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea.
Nur-Sultan (Kazakh: Нұр-Сұлтан, Nūr-Sūltan) was the name of the capital of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2022, the city is currently known as Astana. The name was given to the capital when it was named after Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Module:Location map/data/Kazakhstan is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Kazakhstan. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Detailed map of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia , with a small portion in Eastern Europe . [ 1 ] With an area of about 2,724,900 square kilometers (1,052,100 sq mi) Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger than Alaska .
^1 Almaty, Astana and Shymkent have the status of the city of republican significance, and as such do not relate to any region. ^2 The West Kazakhstan and Atyrau regions are both partly located in Eastern Europe as the Ural River runs through Atyrau and Oral, their respective capital cities.
Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport [a] (IATA: NQZ, ICAO: UACC), alternatively referred by its previous name as Astana International Airport until 2017 (or simply Astana Airport), is the international airport serving Astana, Kazakhstan, the capital and second most populous city in the country. It is the primary aviation hub for northern ...
The first American Embassy in Kazakhstan was set up in Alma-Ata (currently Almaty) on 3 February, 1992, with William Harrison Courtney assuming the position as the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim. [1] The Embassy of the United States was originally located in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan.