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Kazakhstan

[ kah-zahk-stahn ]

noun

  1. a republic in central Asia, NE of the Caspian Sea and W of China. 1,049,155 sq. mi. (2,717,311 sq. km). : Akmola.


Kazakhstan

/ -ˈstɑːn; ˌkɑːzɑːkˈstæn /

noun

  1. a republic in central Asia: conquered by Mongols in the 13th century; came under Russian control in the 18th and 19th centuries; was a Soviet republic from 1936 until it gained independence in 1991. It has rich mineral deposits and agriculture is important. Official language: Kazakh. Religion: nonreligious, Muslim, and Christian. Official currency: tenge. Capital: Astana (formerly Akmola, Akmolinsk, or Tselinograd); capital functions moved from Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata) in 1997. Pop: 17 736 896 (2013 est). Area: 2 715 100 sq km (1 048 030 sq miles)
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Kazakhstan

  1. Republic in west-central Asia , bordered on the northwest and north by Russia , on the east by China , on the south by Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan , and on the west by the Caspian Sea . Its capital and largest city is Alma-Ata.


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Notes

This former member of the Soviet Union declared its independence in 1990. It possesses valuable oil reserves.
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Example Sentences

Buy the BookChinese journalist Li Juan lives in the Xinjiang region of China in the Altay prefecture, a mountainous, arid landscape that shares a border with Mongolia, Russia, and Kazakhstan.

Weeks earlier, on October 4 of 1959, a pillar of fire lit up the sky above the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a remote Soviet space facility.

If you look at a map of the Earth, you can see the barrier between Kazakhstan and India is the Himalayan Mountain Range, the tallest in the world.

During the winter, they usually live in the middle of India, and in the summer they live in Kazakhstan or Mongolia.

Still, Chevron, which pumps oil everywhere from Texas to Nigeria to Kazakhstan, has tried to weather the current slump by cutting thousands of jobs and by reducing planned spending by billions of dollars over the next few years.

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As to whether Kazakhstan will pass a Russia-style Anti-Propaganda Law, that is a different matter.

The Kansas landscape on the tapestries is not recognizable, he says: “It could be Kazakhstan.”

I am a former soldier and I asked my friends who served with me to help and they have come from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Just what is it about the British royal family and Kazakhstan?

So just what is it about the British royal family and Kazakhstan?

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