The largest landlocked country on Earth, and the site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from which the first human spaceflight launched.
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Kazakhstan
Republic of Kazakhstan ยท าะฐะทะฐาััะฐะฝ
Asia
ยท Central Asia
0Population
2.72Mkmยฒ of land
$9.81KGDP / person
Nur-SultanCapital
- ISO codes
- KZ ยท KAZ
- Density
- 7 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Kazakh, Russian
- Currency
- Kazakhstani tenge (KZT)
- Dial code
- +7
- Internet domain
- .kz
- Time zones
- 7
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 49.0540ยฐ N, 68.6860ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Kazakhstani
- UN region
- Central Asia
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $181.67B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 5
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By the numbers
How Kazakhstan stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
64th
of 242 ยท 0.24% of world population
Land area
10th
of 242 ยท 1.82% of world land
GDP per person
107th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
216th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Kazakhstan
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 18,513,930 people, the 64th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.24 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 2,724,900 kmยฒ, making it the 10th largest country here - about 11.2 times the size of the United Kingdom.
Population density is about 7 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Nur-Sultan, at 51.18ยฐ N, 71.43ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 345,604.
Shares land borders with 5 countries: China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Spans 7 time zones, from Asia/Almaty to Asia/Qyzylorda.
The currency is the Kazakhstani tenge (KZT, symbol โธ).
Has 2 official languages: Kazakh and Russian.
Local time
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Almaty
Almaty
43.3269ยฐ N, 76.9131ยฐ E
1.21M
2
Shymkent
South Kazakhstan
42.3200ยฐ N, 69.5950ยฐ E
465.39K
3
Qaraghandy
Qaraghandy
49.8850ยฐ N, 73.1150ยฐ E
451.8K
4
Taraz
Zhambyl
42.9000ยฐ N, 71.3650ยฐ E
358.15K
5
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Nur-Sultan
Aqmola
51.1811ยฐ N, 71.4278ยฐ E
345.6K
6
Pavlodar
Pavlodar
52.3000ยฐ N, 76.9500ยฐ E
329K
7
Oskemen
East Kazakhstan
49.9900ยฐ N, 82.6149ยฐ E
319.07K
8
Semey
East Kazakhstan
50.4350ยฐ N, 80.2750ยฐ E
311.35K
9
Qyzylorda
Qyzylorda
44.8000ยฐ N, 65.4650ยฐ E
300K
10
Aqtobe
Aqtรถbe
50.2800ยฐ N, 57.1700ยฐ E
262.46K
Land neighbours
5 countries share a border with Kazakhstan.