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Coat of arms of Kazakhstan
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| Motto: "High five!" | |
| Anthem: My Kazakhstan | |
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| Capital | Astana |
| Largest city | Almaty |
| Official languages | Kazakh (state language), Russian |
| Government | Republic |
| • President | Nursultan Nazarbayev |
| • Prime Minister | Daniyal Akhmetov |
| Independence From the Soviet Union | |
| • Declared | December 16, 1991 |
| • Finalized | December 25, 1991 |
| • Water (%) | 1.7 |
| Population | |
| • January 2006 estimate | 15,217,700 (62nd) |
| • 1999 census | 14,953,100 |
| GDP (PPP) | 2005 estimate |
| • Total | $125.5 billion (56th) |
| • Per capita | $8,318 (70th) |
| HDI (2003) | 0.761 high (80th) |
| Currency | Tenge (KZT) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 to +6 |
| Calling code | 7 |
| ISO 3166 code | KZ |
| Internet TLD | .kz |
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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. A small portion of its territory west of the Ural River is located in eastern-most Europe. It has borders with Russia, the People's Republic of China, and the Central Asian countries Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and has a coastline on the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan was a republic of the former Soviet Union and is now a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
It is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, but it is only 62nd country in population, with approximately 6 persons per km² (15 per sq. mi.). Population in 2006 is estimated at 15,300,000, down from 16,464,464 in 1989. Much of the country's land consists of semi-desert (steppe) terrain.