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Lonely Planet | On the Road (1095 words) |
 | Born of the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kazakhstan is the ninth- biggest country in the world and, thanks to huge reserves of oil and gas, is one of Asia's most important emerging economies. |
| Almaty, a leafy city of 1.3 million people in the Tian Shan foothills in southeast Kazakhstan, remains the commercial and social hub; however, since 1997 the national capital has been Astana, a former medium-sized provincial city in the northern steppe (nearer to Russia) that is being transformed at lightning speed with monumental 21st-century architecture. |
| But Kazakhstan's barely known countryside harbours untapped riches, from the lakes, canyons, forests and snow-capped mountains along its southern and eastern fringes to the stark drama of the desert-like Ustyurt Plateau in the far west. |
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Kazakhstan :: UEFA (511 words) |
| Kazakhstan, also spelled Kazakstan, (Kazakh: Қазақстан, Qazaqstan, IPA ; Russian: Казахстан, Kazakhstán, IPA), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of northern and central Eurasia. |
| Kazakhstan was a republic of the former Soviet Union and is now a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
| Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, but its semi-deserts (steppe) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 persons per sq km (15/mi²). |
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