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Change of oblast names and boundaries from 1954 to today Over the last 60 years, both the distribution and names of regions of Kazakhstan have changed considerably. Major changes were several fusions and splits between Guryev and Mangystau, Karaganda and Dzhezkazgan, Almaty and Taldy-Kurgan, East Kazakhstan and Semipalatinsk and Kostanay ...
Currently for Kazakhstan, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 3 cities and 17 regions. The cities Almaty and Astana are the former and current capitals of the country respectively and have special status equal to the regions. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is KZ, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Kazakhstan ...
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. [79] Astana annually hosts the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Cup ice hockey tournament. [80] The Astana Pro Team, founded in 2007, participates in the UCI World Tour. [81]
name = Kazakhstan Name used in the default map caption; image = Kazakhstan adm location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" image1 = Relief Map of Kazakhstan.png An alternative map image, usually a relief map, which can be displayed via the relief or AlternativeMap parameters; top = 56 Latitude at top edge of map, in ...
Most of the country lies at between 200–300 m (660–980 ft) above sea level, but Kazakhstan's Caspian shore includes some of the lowest elevations on Earth. Many of the peaks of the Altay and Tien Shan ranges are covered with snow, year-round, and their runoff is the source for most of Kazakhstan's freshwater rivers, streams, and lakes.
This is a list of all cities and settlements in Kazakhstan with a population of at least fifty thousand people as of official population estimates in 2023. The three largest cities are Almaty, Astana (the national capital), and Shymkent; as cities of republican significance, they are administratively independent and belong to no region.
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.
This is a list of places in the continent of Asia which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world), and while most of the places included are towns, the list also includes villages, cities ...