Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан, romanized: Qazaqstan; Russian: Казахстан, romanized: Kazakhstan), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасы, romanized: Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy; Russian: Республика Казахстан, romanized: Respublika Kazakhstan), is a country in Central Asia.[f] It borders Russia in the north, China in the east, and Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in the south. The capital is Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana.

It was moved from Almaty, the country’s largest city, in 1997. Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country, and the ninth-largest in the world. It has a population of 18.8 million, and one of the lowest population densities in the world, at fewer than 6 people per square kilometre (15 people per sq mi).