Money: tenge (T); US$1 = 151T; €1 = 191T
Famous For: oil, steppe, launching rockets, empty space
Population: 15 million
Capital: Astana
Country Code: 7 (the same as Russia)
Languages: Kazakh, Russian
Size: The world’s ninth biggest country.
Location: Kazakhstan is situated in Central Asia, deep in the Eurasian continent.
It borders upon the following states: China, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia
National holidays: Day of the Republic (October 25--my birthday) and Independence Day (December 16).
Kazakhstan is rich with commercial minerals: chromium, vanadium, bismuth, fluorine, iron, chromite, lead, zink, tungsten, molybdenum, phosphorite, copper, potassium and cadmium
Oil and Gas: They have discovered nearly 160 deposits of oil and gas, their Tenghiz field only ranks as one of the largest deposits of the world.
Kazakhstan is the second richest country in the world (after Russia) with regard to phosphorite reserves.
Kazakhstan holds one of the first places in the world as to the production of aluminium.
you forgot to mention that Kazakhstan voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for democratic processes...thus that is why we have so much empty space...
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