Kazakhstan

January 6, 2022
Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
Category: DPN Topics

Kazakhstan

Subject – IR

Context – Group of protestors storm Mayor’s office in Kazakhstan

Concept –

Name	Geographical Location	Bordering Countries
Kazakhstan	In Central Asia	Russia in the north and west China in the east Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in the south

Capital	Features	Economy
Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana	world’s largest landlocked country, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country by land area (and the northernmost), the ninth-largest country in the world one of the lowest population densities in the world	Kazakhstan is the most dominant nation of Central Asia economically and politically, generating 60% of the region’s GDP, primarily through its oil and gas industry.