KAZAKHSTAN Capital: Astana
Geography: lies in the center of Eurasia, is approximately at equal distance from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. At 2,717,300 square kilometers, Kazakhstan is ninth in size among the world countries and second among the CIS countries, being preceded only by Russia. A large part of the land is the step landscape that stretches from Europe to Siberia. In other parts there are forests, mountains, lakes and rivers. Kazakhstan borders Russia in the east, north and northwest, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan in the south and China in the southeast.
Climate: sharp continental, precipitations are irregular.
Religion: Islam, Christianity.
Currency: 1 Kazakh tenge, equal to 100 tiyn.
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