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	Kazakhstan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, but its semi-deserts (steppe) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 persons per sq km (16 per sq mi).
		Kazakhstan is a constitutional republic with a strong presidency.
		Kazakhstan is a bilingual country: the Kazakh language, spoken by 64.4% of the population, has the status of the "state" language, while Russian is declared the "official" language, and is used routinely in business.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kazakhstan (3347 words)

	Kazakhstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, but its deserts make it only the 57th country in population.
		In 1997 the capital of Kazakhstan moved from the southern city of Almaty to Akmolinsk (Akmola), later renamed to Astana, a city closer to the geographic center of the country.
		Although Kazakhstan is considered to have made greater progress in the field of democratic reforms, compared to the other Central Asian countries, the situation is far from perfect and international and non-governmental human rights organizations often point to frequent violations of human rights by state officials.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/k/ka/kazakhstan.html (585 words)

	Kazakhstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан, Qazaqstan, IPA /qɑzɑqˈstɑn/; Russian: Казахстан, Kazakhstán, IPA /kɐzəxˈstɐn/), also spelled Kazakstan, is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Asia.
		Kazakhstan is also a former republic of the now extinct Soviet Union.
		Kazakhstan has a bicameral Parliament, comprised of a lower house (the Mazhilis) and upper house (the Senate).
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Kazakhstan (3233 words)

	History of Kazakhstan
		Nomadic tribes have been living in the region that is now Kazakhstan since the first century BC.
		Under Nursultan Nazarbayev, who initially came to power in 1989 as the head of the Kazakh Communist Party and was eventually elected President in 1991, Kazakhstan has made significant progress toward developing a market economy, for which it was recognized by the United States in 2002.
		The area was conquered by Russia in the 18th century and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1936.
	infotut.com /geography/Kazakhstan (1070 words)

	Kazakhstan (08/05)
		Kazakhstan is divided into 14 oblasts and the two municipal districts of Almaty and Astana.
		Kazakhstan has identified a number of major ecological problems within its borders--desiccation of the Aral Sea, protection of the fragile Caspian ecosystem, remediation of the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing range, cleanup of the Baykonur launching facility, extremely polluted cities, desertification, and development of mechanisms for regional transboundary water management.
		Travelers transiting through Kazakhstan are reminded to check that their visas allow for sufficient number of entries to cover each transit trip and to check the length of validity of the visa.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5487.htm (5059 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles
		Kazakhstan is the second largest (after Russia) of the former Soviet Republics and the fourth most populous.
		Kazakhstan signed two core UN human rights conventions: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (yet to be ratified) in November 2003.
		Kazakhstan is a significant transit route for Afghan grown and produced opium and heroin.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019233907700 (2332 words)

	*Kazakhstan Geography* (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While the climate of the country is sharply continental with average temperatures ranging from - 19° - to 26° C throughout the year, temperatures may go down to - 45° C in the Winter or + 30° C in the Summer.
		Rivers of all varieties can be found in Kazakhstan, with 8,500 big and small rivers flowing and linking to the Caspian Sea, Aral Sea and Artic Ocean etc. The length of seven largest rivers exceeds 100 km, with the Ural and the Emba being the two largest ones.
		More importantly Kazakhstan is situated with "the larger portion of the nothern and half of the eastern littoral of the Caspian Sea - the largest ever sea on the planet." The Kazakhstani portion of the Caspian Sea coastline is a staggering 2,340 km.
	www.starsgroup.com /kazak/geography.html (203 words)

	The Savvy Traveller -Kazakhstan - Coming of Age
		Kazakhstan is a nation currently breaking into the world’s consciousness as it masters the exploitation of its natural resources enormous hydro-carbon and mineral resources and takes on a more pivotal role in Euro-Asia.
		For years, Kazakhstan’s vast territory – stretching from Europe to China – has been a sleeping giant, a site of largely undisturbed natural wealth and a people of exceptional hardiness and resourcefulness.
		Here is Kazakhstan in a work combining sound scholarship and research with over 400 photographs and many maps.
	www.thesavvytraveller.com /insights/geography/asia/kazakhstan/kazakhstan_coming_of_age.htm (209 words)

	Facts About Kazakhstan
		Kazakhstan, the largest of the former Soviet republics in territory, excluding Russia, possesses enormous fossil fuel reserves as well as plentiful supplies of other minerals and metals.
		Kazakhstan's industrial sector rests on the extraction and processing of these natural resources and also on a growing machine-building sector specializing in construction equipment, tractors, agricultural machinery, and some defense items.
		Kazakhstan enjoyed double-digit growth in 2000-01 - and a solid 9.5% in 2002 - thanks largely to its booming energy sector, but also to economic reform, good harvests, and foreign investment.
	worldfacts.us /Kazakhstan.htm (991 words)

	Kazakhstan
		Kazakhstan lies in the north of the central Asian republics and is bounded by Russia in the north, China in the east, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in the south, and the Caspian Sea and part of Turkmenistan in the west.
		Kazakhstan has the potential for becoming one of central Asia's richest countries because of its huge mineral and oil resources and its liberalized economy, which encourages Western investment.
		Kazakhstan: Government - Government Under the constitution of 1995, Kazakhstan is headed by a strong executive president,...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107674.html (859 words)

	Kazakhstan (10/03)
		Grain (Kazakhstan is the sixth- largest producer in the world) and livestock are the most important agricultural commodities.
		Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan established the Eurasian Economic Community in 2000 to reenergize earlier efforts at harmonizing trade tariffs and the creation of a free trade zone under a customs union.
		Kazakhstan has identified a number of major ecological problems within its borders--desiccation of the Aral Sea, protection of the fragile Caspian ecosystem, remediation of the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing range, clean-up of the Baykonur launching facility, extremely polluted cities, desertification, and development of mechanisms for regional transboundry water management.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/k/33271.htm (3951 words)

	UW Madison Geography - Robert J. Kaiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Geography of nationalism; cultural politics of memory; politics of scale; power, place and identity; border studies; post-socialist space.
		Geography 553: Eastern Europe and the FSU: Problems in Human Geography.
		Geography 918: Seminar in Political Geography: The Geography of Nationalism.
	feature.geography.wisc.edu /faculty/kaiser/welcome.html (488 words)

	Kazakhstan - Gurupedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Russia entered into an agreement whereby Russia would lease for a period of 20 years an area of 6,000 sq km enclosing the Bayqongyr (Baykonur) space launch facilities and the city of Bayqongyr (formerly Leninsk).
		Kazakhstan has identified two major ecological disasters within its borders-- the shrinking of the Aral Sea and
		Kazakhstan possesses the Soviet equivalent to the United States' Cape Canaveral, where they have launched their version of the space shuttle and the well-known space station
	www.gurupedia.com /k/ka/kazakhstan.htm (517 words)

	Tolerance.org: KAZAKHSTAN: A Cultural Geography
		Located in Central Asia, Kazakhstan is a former republic of the USSR that is slightly less than four times the size of Texas.
		On December 12, 1991 Kazakhstan declared its independence, and in January 1992 Kazakhstan became a founding member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
		Kazakhstan continued moving toward democracy by reinforcing the Constitutional Court's independence by ruling several presidential and government decrees unconstitutional.
	www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=307 (403 words)

	The United States and Kazakhstan: Geography As a Factor Of Intimacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Doulatbek Khidirbekughli was born in 1967 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, then a part of the former Soviet Union.
		Kazakhstan as one of the post-Soviet countries is an important partner for the Unites States in its geostrategic interests.
		We have subjects such as economic geography, historical geography, and political geography with natural, environmental and physical geography grouped together.
	www.freenet.kz /doulatbek/book1/the_united_states_and_kazakhstan.htm (577 words)

	Kazakhstan - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is bound by Russia to the north, the Caspian Sea to the west and southwest, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to the south and China to the southeast.
		Literacy; N/A. On Dec. 12, 1991 Kazakhstan declared its independence, although prior to independence its history was closely tied with that of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
		In Sept. 1993 Kazakhstan formed an economic union with members of the CIS while in Dec. 1993 agreements were signed with the US further committing Kazakhstan to remove strategic nuclear missiles in return for funding for such denuclearization.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/kazakh.htm (1624 words)

	Kazakhstan -> Land and People on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Security assistance in Kazakhstan: building a partnership for the future.
		Middle East looks to Kazakhstan: after a decade of independence Kazakhsta's geographical position and considerable oil reserves have assured it of a place in the global economy Pamela Ann Smith reports from Almaty and...
		From a totalitarian prison system in Kazakhstan to a system based on human rights.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/kazakhstan_landandpeople.asp (628 words)

	Kazakhstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Economy—overview: Kazakhstan, the second largest of the former Soviet republics in territory, possesses enormous untapped fossil fuel reserves as well as plentiful supplies of other minerals and metals.
		Kazakhstan's industrial sector rests on the extraction and processing of these natural resources and also on a relatively large machine building sector specializing in construction equipment, tractors, agricultural machinery, and some defense items.
		The breakup of the USSR and the collapse of demand for Kazakhstan's traditional heavy industry products have resulted in a sharp contraction of the economy since 1991, with the steepest annual decline occurring in 1994.
	www.cultureconnect.com /facts/kz.htm (1197 words)

	Geography Of Kazakhstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/kazakhstan_country_geography.shtml (384 words)

	Geography Of Kazakhstan Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	Kazakhstan News.Net
		Kazakhstan News.Net is part of an international network of news sites, dedicated to the major regions, countries and cities of the world.
		This particular portal features all the latest breaking Kazakhstan news, collating headlines and stories from a variety of sources, including global TV networks, major newspapers, news wires, and our own dedicated journalists.
		Links to Kazakhstan sports sites, and a regional map are also features of our site, and we regularly provide polls of general interest.
	www.kazakhstannews.net (233 words)

	Geography of Kazakhstan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This article describes the (Study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation) geography of (A landlocked republic south of Russia and northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991) Kazakhstan.
		Kazakhstan borders the (A lake east of the Caspian Sea lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) Aral Sea, now split into two bodies of water (1,070 km), and the (A large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world) Caspian Sea (1,894 km).
		Natural hazards (Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity) Earthquakes in the south, mud slides around (The largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998) Almaty
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/geography_of_kazakhstan.htm (353 words)

	REENIC: Kazakhstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Internews Kazakhstan (a Kazakhstan chapter of the international non-profit organization; in English or Russian)
		Kazakhstan Press-Club (a non-governmental news service; in English or Russian; the news are current only in the Russian version)
		The Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (a higher education institution offering program based on international standards)
	reenic.utexas.edu /reenic/countries/kazakhstan.html (1270 words)

	Kazakhstan Adoption (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From geography to culture to economy and arts, this site is a great reference point for learning more about the country of Kazakhstan.
		Families exploring the adoption of a child from Kazakhstan are also welcome on PAKK, as are representatives from adoption agencies who work in Kazakhstan.
		Discusses health issues in Kazakhstan - heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, radiation and micronutrient deficiencies - that may affect the adopted Kazakh child.
	www.thekidslist.com /Kazakhstan.htm (831 words)

	AllRefer.com - Balkash, city, Kazakhstan (CIS And Baltic Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Balkash, city, Kazakhstan, CIS And Baltic Political Geography
		86,609), in Kazakhstan, on the north shore of Lake Balkash.
		A railroad terminus and port, it has fish processing and copper-smelting industries.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BalkshKaz.html (172 words)

	Geography of Kazakhstan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Geography of Kazakhstan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	Republic of Kazakhstan - Qazaqstan
		Current issues include: developing a cohesive national identity; expanding the development of the country's vast energy resources and exporting them to world markets; and continuing to strengthen relations with neighboring states and other foreign powers.
		Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN
		Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/kazakhstan.htm (280 words)

	Kazakhstan Geography - Area, Cities, Climate, and Weather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kazakhstan Geography - Area, Cities, Climate, and Weather
		The information below contains geography information for Kazakhstan, including climate, weather, cities, and area information.
		You can also check out the Kazakhstan Country Page for additional resources.
	www.factrover.com /geography/Kazakhstan_geography.html (118 words)

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