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Kazakhstan is a contiguous transcontinental country in Central Asia. Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country by land area and the ninth largest country in the world. It borders with (clockwise from the north) Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and also adjoins a large part of the Caspian Sea. The capital is Astana, where it was moved from Almaty in 1997.
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Headlines
How protests in Kazakhstan could become a geopolitical crisis
Emergency declared in Kazakhstan as fuel protests rage and government resigns
How the Soviet Union’s end sparked a grand rewilding
An Illustrated History of Kazakhstan: Asia’s Heartland
Kazakhstan: President suggests renaming the country
Reports
Developing a hub for tourism in Central Asia by Susan M. Kennedy (PDF)
Elsewhere on the Web
Kazakhstan – Lonely Planet
Kazakhstan – Newsgoogle
What Borat gets right and wrong about Kazakhstan – Slate
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