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Kazakhstan

• Formation – 1991
• Capital – Astana
• Languages – Kazakh, Russian
• Religions – Muslim (Sunni) – 50%, Russian Orthodox – 13%
• Currency - tenge
• President – Nursultan Nazarbaev

Kazakhstan is situated in Central Asia, deep in the Eurasian continent. Its territory is as large as 2,717,300 sq km (1,049,150 sq miles). Kazakhstan borders Russia in the north and west, China in the east, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in the south. It has a lengthy shoreline on the Caspian Sea in the West and on the Aral Sea. The total length of Kazakhstan’s borders exceeds 15,000 kilometers. As of January 2001, Kazakhstan’s population was 14.8 million people. Majority of population are Kazakhs - 55.1 %, 28.3 % are Russians

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