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Kazakhstan at a Glance

Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country and former Soviet republic, extends from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Altai Mountains at its eastern border with China and Russia. Its largest metropolis, Almaty, is a long-standing trading hub whose landmarks include Ascension Cathedral, a tsarist-era Russian Orthodox church, and the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan, displaying thousands of Kazakh artifacts.
Area2.73 Square KilometersCapitalAstanaPopulation17.54 MillionOfficial LanguagesKazakh,RussianCurrencyKazakhstani tengeTime DifferenceGMT +5ISD Code+7BoundaryKazakhstan is located in Central Asia and Eastern Europe at 48°N 68°E Coordinates: 48°N 68°E. With an area of about 2,724,800 square kilometers, Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states, or about twice the size of Alaska. The country borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan to the south; Russia to the north; Russia and the Caspian Sea to the west; and China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the east.

  • Visa Info

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    passport should be valid for at least six months for all the Indian Nationals.

  • Heritage and culture of Kazakhstan

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    The Kazakhstani people has centuries-old history, possesses cultural values that are in the treasury of world civilization. On the number and diversity of monuments Kazakhstan can be put in one line with such states as India, China, states of Mediterranean and Middle East and it is a unique museum in the open air.
    Cultural heritage of Kazakhstan has all diversity of cultural values of peoples that lived in the territory of Kazakhstan. That is more than 25 thousand immovable monuments of history, archeology, architecture and monumental art, more than 2 million 56 thousand units of cultural values located in expositions and funds of 89 state museums, 66 million 840 thousand volumes of books, rare manuscript and publications stored in 3495 state libraries.

  • Cuisine

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    Besbarmak, a dish consisting of boiled horse or mutton meat, is the most popular Kazakh dish. It is also called "five fingers" because of the way it is eaten. The chunks of boiled meat are cut and served by the host in order of the guests' importance.

  • Women's Day

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    8th March is an international women's day in many countries of the world. Kazakhstan is not an exception in it. This day is a holiday and day off in Kazakhstan.

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