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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]
†Japanese name during Korea under Japanese rule (1910–1945). The Korean name is unchanged. ‡Name change in English due to replacement McCune-Reischauer with the Revised Romanization method in 2000. The Korean name is unchanged.
The current emblem is based on the one adopted in 1998 along with the city flag, at the 16th session of the Astana City Mäslihat in 1998. [1] In 2019 the city was renamed from Astana to Nur-Sultan. As the city name features on both the emblem and city flag, both insignia were updated to the new name in 2019.
Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area, which ranges from the change of a street name to a change to the name of a country. Places are also sometimes assigned dual names for various reasons.
Nur-Sultan (Kazakh: Нұр-Сұлтан, Nūr-Sūltan) was the name of the capital of Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2022, the city is currently known as Astana. The name was given to the capital when it was named after Nursultan Nazarbayev .
ISO 3166-2:KZ is the entry for Kazakhstan in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
The king's name was also inscribed on the coins, known as "staters." The two sides of a British 'stater' bearing the name of King Cunobelinus. / Credit: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
Air Astana, an airline based in Kazakhstan; The Astana (palace), a palace in Sarawak, Malaysia; Astana (radio), a news and music station broadcasting from Astana, Kazakhstan; Astana Cemetery, an archaeological site in Xinjiang, China; Astana TV, a Kazakh television channel based in Astana, Kazakhstan