Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасы; Russian: Республика Казахстан), referred to as Kazakhstan or Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is a cross-continental country, across Asia and Europe, mainly in northern Central Asia, a small part of the territory of the Ural River in Europe. Kazakhstan land area of 2,727,300 square kilometers, the world's largest landlocked countries. Before the independence of the Soviet Union, one of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Socialist Republic, December 16, 1991, Nur Sultan Nazarbayev declared independence, is the latest in the disintegration of the Soviet Union. After becoming independent member of the CIS countries, since 2009 as members of the Turkic Parliament, June 15, 2001 to become members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The original capital is located in Almaty, moved to Astana in 1997. Kazakhstan north, west and Russia, southeast and China, south and Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and other countries border. Northwest of the Caspian Sea in the Caspian Sea has 2964 km of coastline. ...