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The Kazakhstan–Russia border [a] is the 7,598.6-kilometre (4,721.6 mi) international border between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. [2] It is the longest continuous international border in the world and the second longest by total length, after the Canada–United States border . [ 3 ]
Distinct Land Borders: Refers to the number of separate geographic boundaries a country shares with its neighbors. A single country may have multiple distinct land borders with the same neighbour (e.g., due to enclaves, exclaves, or disconnected regions). Distinct Land Neighbours: Refers to the number of unique countries a nation borders via land.
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.
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.
Kazakhstan has the 62nd largest population in the world, with a population density of less than 6 people per square kilometre (15 per sq. mi.). Kazakhstan declared itself an independent country on December 16, 1991, the last Soviet republic to do so. Its communist-era leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, became the country's new president.
Floods have swamped parts of Russia and Kazakhstan after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate and sparking protests against the authorities.
The China–Kazakhstan border (Kazakh: Қазақстан–Қытай мемлекеттiк шекарасы, romanized: Qazaqstan–Qytai memlekettık şekarasy; Chinese: 中哈边界; pinyin: Zhōnghā biānjiè; Dungan: Җунгуй–Хазахстан бянҗе), also known as the Sino-Kazakh border, is the international border between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of ...
537 km 2 of territory on the China–Kazakhstan border Kazakhstan Republic of China [note 1] [note 2] The Kazakh Government ceded 407 km 2 to the PRC, and the PRC ceded 537 km 2 to Kazakhstan in 1999. However, the settlement is not recognized by the Republic of China. [note 2] Khan Tengri peak, the Boz-Tik site, the Bedel pass, and the ...