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KAZAKHSTAN

... officially Republic of Kazakstan , Kazakh Qazaqstan Respublikasï country of Central Asia. It is bounded on the northwest and north by Russia, on the east by China, and on the south by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and the Aral Sea; the Caspian Sea bounds Kazakstan to the southwest. Kazakstan's 1,052,100 square miles (2,724,900 square kilometres) make it by far the largest state in Central Asia and the ninth largest in the world. Between its most distant points Kazakstan measures about 1,820 miles (2,930 kilometres) east to west and 960 miles north to south. While Kazakstan was not considered by authorities in the former Soviet Union to be a part of Central Asia, it does have physical and cultural geographic characteristics similar to those of the other Central Asian countries. The capital is Astana (formerly Tselinograd) in the north-central part of the country. Kazakstan, formerly a constituent (union) republic of the U.S.S.R., declared independence on Dec. 16, 1991.

Kazakstan's great mineral resources and arable lands have long aroused the envy of outsiders, and the resulting exploitation has generated environmental and political problems. The forced settlement of the nomadic Kazaks in the Soviet period, combined with large-scale Slavic in-migration, strikingly altered the Kazak way of life and led to considerable settlement and urbanization in Kazakstan...

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Background Information Background notes: Kazakhstan. Internet. Connect to http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS32777 NationMaster.com: Kazakhstan http://www.nationmaster.com/country/kz CIA World Factbook ("Country Listing" section contains a map and general information about countries around the world) http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kz.html Flag of Kazakhstan Image and descriptions of the Central Asian country's flag. http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/kz.html back to top News Kazakhstan News Sites http://www.world-newspapers.com/kazakhstan.html ABYZNews Links (Newspapers, News Media, and News Sources) KAZAKHSTAN (RUS & ENGL) http://www.abyznewslinks.com/kazak.htm and more... Embassy of Kazakhstan to the USA and Canada http://www.kazakhembus.com/ Info about visa requirements for U.S. citizens traveling on tourism/business http://travel.state.gov/visa/americans1.html Embassy of the United States in Almaty, Kazakhstan http://www.usembassy-kazakhstan.freenet.kz/ You can find more information via Google Search WWW www.tucson-almaty.info back to top