GeoPointe - Kazakhstan

Official Name: Republic of Kazakhstan
Location: Central Asia, northwest of China.
Capital: Astana (the government moved from Almaty to Astana in December 1998)

Area:	total: 2,717,300 sq km
	land: 2,669,800 sq km
	water: 47,500 sq km

Lowest point: Vpadina Kaundy -132 m.
Highest point: Khan Tangiri Shyngy (Pik Khan-Tengri) 6,995 m.

A Mongolian eagle hunter in Kazakhstan

More pictures	Purchase this poster


Population: 15,284,929 (July 2007 est.) Nationality: Kazakhstani(s) Ethnic groups: Kazakh (Qazaq) 53.4%, Russian 30%, Ukrainian 3.7%, Uzbek 2.5%, German 2.4%, Uighur 1.4%, other 6.6%. Religions: Muslim 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, Protestant 2%, other 7%. Languages: Kazakh (Qazaq, state language) 64.4%, Russian (official) 95%.

Continental. Cold winters and hot summers. Arid and semiarid.

Government type: Republic.
Independence: 16 December 1991 (from the Soviet Union).
National holiday: Republic Day, 25 October (1990).