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Kazakhstan accepted the convention on 29 April 1994. [3] There are six World Heritage Sites listed in Kazakhstan, with a further 13 on the tentative list. [3] The first site inscribed to the list was the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, at the 27th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Paris in 2003. [4]
Nursultan Nazarbayev (born 1940), President of Kazakhstan Jumabay Shayahmetov (1902–1966), First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR (1946–1954), former NKVD officer who participated in repressions against Kazakh people
Islam is the largest religion in Kazakhstan, followed by Russian Orthodox Christianity.Approximately 70% of the population is Muslim. [2] The majority are Sunni of the Hanafi school, including ethnic Kazakhs, who constitute about 60% of the population, as well as by ethnic Uzbeks, Uighurs, and Tatars. [3]
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.
The most famous Saka-era discovery was made in the Issyk kurgan in south-eastern Kazakhstan, near Almaty city, in 1969. Known as the " Golden Man ", this wealthy Saka man or woman was costumed in armor, boots and hat decorated with many gold plates, so that the burial resembled a statue in precious metals.
On June 2, 2007, the National Bank of Kazakhstan put into circulation the coin "Cathedral Cathedral" (proof quality) of 500 tenge in 925 sterling silver with the mintage of 4000 pieces with the aim to promote the understanding of the culture of Kazakhstan, and to favor the idea of religion as a peaceful teaching about spiritual and moral self-improvement of person.
The year also closed with a deadly plane crash in South Korea and another in Kazakhstan, making 2024 an especially nerve-wracking year for plane travel. 25 places for 2025 An island shaped like a ...
The Kazakhs (Kazakh: қазақтар, qazaqtar, قازاقتار, ⓘ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia and Eastern Europe.There are Kazakh communities in Kazakhstan's border regions in Russia, northern Uzbekistan, northwestern China (Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture), western Mongolia (Bayan-Ölgii Province) and Iran (Golestan province). [28]