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Astana is the second-coldest national capital in the world after Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, a position formerly held by Canada's capital, Ottawa, until Astana attained capital city status in 1997. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Astana has an extreme continental climate with warm summers (featuring occasional brief rain showers) and long, very cold, dry winters.
Kazakhstan, [d] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [e] is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a small portion of its territory 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.
Map of Kazakhstan. This is a list of airports in Kazakhstan, sorted by location. Aerodromes here are listed with their 4-letter ICAO code, and 3-letter IATA code (where available). Kazakhstan is a unitary state consisting of seventeen regions. The capital city of Kazakhstan is Astana.
An enlargeable map of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Kazakhstan: . The Republic of Kazakhstan is a landlocked sovereign country located across both Central Asia and Eastern Europe. [1]
Provinces and main cities of Kazakhstan. As of April 2024, the share of Kazakhstan's urban population is 62.3%. [1] The following is a list of cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants in Kazakhstan. The names of many places have been changed during the 20th and 21st centuries, sometimes more than once.
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.
July 6 is now celebrated in Kazakhstan as Capital City Day. On September 15, 1995, Nazarbayev issued a decree with the force of law On the Capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, establishing a State Commission to coordinate the relocation of higher and central government bodies to Akmola, headed by Nikolai Makeyevskiy. The government of ...