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Astana is the second-coldest national capital in the world after Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, a position formerly held by Canada's capital, Ottawa, until Astana attained capital city status in 1997. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Astana has an extreme continental climate with warm summers (featuring occasional brief rain showers) and long, very cold, dry winters.
Its capital is Astana, while the largest city and leading cultural and commercial hub is Almaty. Kazakhstan is the world's ninth-largest country by land area and the largest landlocked country. It has a population of 20 million and one of the lowest population densities in the world, at fewer than 6 people per square kilometre (16 people/sq mi ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Astana have not played for nearly a fortnight and are not thought to have any fresh injury concerns. Enzo Maresca has spared most of his squad the trip to Kazakhstan, with Chelsea set to have a ...
^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.
It became the capital of Kazakhstan in 1997, and was renamed Astana ("capital city") in 1998. From 2019 to 2022, the city was known as Nur-Sultan in honor of Nursultan Nazarbayev , the country's first president .
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 Embassy of the United States was originally located in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan. However, following the transfer of the capital from Almaty to Astana, the U.S. Embassy was also relocated to Astana in 2006. [2]