About Kazakhstan
The Republic of Kazakhstan is the country of Central Asia. It is bounded northwest and north by Russia, east by China, and south by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, and Turkmenistan.
The Caspian Sea bound Kazakhstan to the southwest. Kazakhstan is the largest country in Central Asia and the ninth-largest in the world. Kazakhstan measures about 1,820 miles (2,930 kilometers) east to west and 960 miles north to south. it has physical and cultural geographic characteristics similar to those of the other Central Asian countries.
The capital is Astana- the north-central part of the country. Kazakhstan, formerly a constituent (union) republic of the U.S.S.R., declared independence on December 16, 1991.