Republic of Kazakhstan Kazakstan Respublikasy CAPITAL: Astana (as of December 1997; formerly Almaty) FLAG: Light blue with a yellow sun and soaring eagle in the center and a yellow vertical ornamentation in the hoist. ANTHEM: National Anthem of...

Kazakhstan POPULATION 16,741,519 MUSLIM 63 percent ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN 32 percent CATHOLIC 3 percent PROTESTANT 1 percent OTHER 1 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Kazakhstan is the largest country in Central Asia. It is bordered to...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 paved the way for the emergence of its largest Asian republic, Kazakhstan, as an independent state. Located in central Asia, early twenty-first century Kazakhstan borders Russia (north), China (east),...

Kazakhstan is a new nation, established as an independent, sovereign state only in 1991, when it emerged from the breakup of the Soviet Union. In its first decade of national independence, Kazakhstan's government demonstrated a strong commitment...

(2001 est. pop. 16.7 million). Situated in central Asia, Kazakhstan, at 2,717,300 square kilometers, is the second largest of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the association of former Soviet states. It shares borders to the north and on...

The education system in Kazakhstan was strongly influenced by the Russian and Soviet education systems. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the czarist government attempted to Westernize the Kazakh education system by sponsoring...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan is a landlocked country located in Central Asia that is bordered by Russia on the north, China on the east, Turkmenistan on the west, and Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on the south. By size, it is the ninth-largest nation in the world...

The Mangyshlak Peninsula (in Kazakh: Mangghystau Tubegi), is located along the western boundary of the Republic of Kazakhstan, an internal political division of the USSR until its independence in 1991. It is part of a greater political-administrative...

(b. 1940), president of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Nursultan Nazarbaev was born in the town of Chemolgan. He joined the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (CPKaz) in 1962 while he was studying at the Karaganda (Qaraghandy) Metallurgical Combine in...

(1791–1838), Kazakh rebel leader. In 1812 Isatai Taimanov became one of the elders of a bersh (more than 3,500 families) community migrating within the southern areas of Kazakhstan adjacent to the Caspian Sea. In 1814 his position as elder was...

Kazakhstan, also spelled Kazakstan (Kazakh: ÒазаÒÑÑ'ан, Qazaqstan, IPA: [qÉ'zÉ'qËstÉ'n]; Russian: ÐазаÑ...ÑÑ'ан, Kazakhstán, IPA: [kazÉxËstan]), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country in Central Asia and Europe. Ranked the...