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Astana [a] is the capital city of Kazakhstan.With a population of 1,350,228 within the city limits, it is the second-largest in the country after Almaty, which had been the capital until 1997. [15]
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.
Kazakhstan, [d] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [e] is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a small portion 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.
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
This image features an architectural or artistic work, photographed from a public space in Kazakhstan. There is no Wikimedia Commons-applicable freedom of panorama exception in Kazakhstan, which means that these works cannot be photographed freely if the purpose of reuse of the resulting photos is commercial.
After the administrative reform in 1997, the last change happened since then took place in 1999, when parts of North Kazakhstan that originally belonged to Kokshetau region became part of Akmola. The 1990s merges were in order to dilute the Russian population in the resulting region and to avoid having regions where Russians form a majority.
The Central Mosque (Kazakh: Астана қаласының Орталық мешіті; Russian: Центральная мечеть Астаны) is a mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan. It is the largest mosque in Central Asia, the second largest mosque outside Middle East, and one of the largest in the world. [1]
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