Republic of Kazakhstan | |
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.svg) Location of Kazakhstan (green) | |
| Capital | Nur-Sultan 51°10′N 71°26′E / 51.167°N 71.433°E |
| Largest city | Almaty |
| Official languages | Kazakh |
Co-official | Russian[a] |
| Ethnic groups (2020[2]) | |
| Religion |
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| Demonym(s) | Kazakhstani[d][4] |
| Government | Unitary dominant-party presidential constitutional republic |
| Nursultan Nazarbayev | |
| Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | |
| Askar Mamin | |
| Mäulen Äşimbaev | |
| Nurlan Nigmatulin | |
| Legislature | Parliament |
| Senate | |
| Mazhilis | |
| Formation | |
| 1465 | |
| 13 December 1917 | |
| 26 August 1920 | |
| 19 June 1925 | |
| 5 December 1936 | |
• Declared Sovereignty | 25 October 1990 |
• Reconstituted as the Republic of Kazakhstan | 10 December 1991 |
• Declared Independence from the USSR | 16 December 1991 |
| 21 December 1991 | |
| 26 December 1991 | |
• Admitted to the United Nations | 2 March 1992 |
| 30 August 1995 | |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,724,900 km2 (1,052,100 sq mi) (9th) |
• Water (%) | 1.7 |
| Population | |
• 2020 estimate |  18,711,560[5] (64th) |
• Density | 7/km2 (18.1/sq mi) (236th) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $569.813 billion[6] (41st) |
• Per capita | $30,178[6] (53rd) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2020 estimate |
• Total | $179.332 billion[6] (55th) |
• Per capita | $9,686[6] (69th) |
| Gini (2017) |  27.5[7]low |
| HDI (2019) | 0.817[8] very high · 50th |
| Currency | Tenge (₸) (KZT) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 / +6 (West / East) |
| Driving side | right |
| Calling code | +7-6xx, +7-7xx |
| ISO 3166 code | KZ |
| Internet TLD | |
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country mainly located in Central Asia with a smaller portion west of the Ural River in Eastern Europe. It covers a land area of 2,724,900 square kilometres (1,052,100 sq mi), and shares land borders with Russia in the north, China in the east, and Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in the south while also adjoining a large part of the Caspian Sea in the southwest. Kazakhstan does not border Mongolia, although they are only 37 kilometers apart, separated by a short portion of the border between Russia and China.