Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Republic of Kazakhstan
Core facts
- Capital
- Astana
- Population
- 20,426,568
- Area
- 2,724,900 km^2
- Country code
- KAZ
- Flag emoji
- 🇰🇿
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 7.5 per km^2
- Calling code
- +76
Culture and society
- Languages
- Kazakh, Russian
- Religions
- Islam (27.0%), Hinduism (25.0%), Unaffiliated (21.0%), Buddhism (12.0%), Christianity (7.0%), Folk religions (6.0%), Other religions (2.0%)
- Native names
- Қазақстан, Казахстан
- Demonyms (EN)
- Kazakhstani / Kazakhstani
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC+05:00, UTC+06:00
- Alternative spellings
- KZ, Qazaqstan, Казахстан, Republic of Kazakhstan, Қазақстан Республикасы, Qazaqstan Respublïkası, Республика Казахстан, Respublika Kazakhstan
Geography and map
- Continents
- Asia
- Coordinates
- 48.02, 66.92
- Landlocked
- Yes
- Borders
- CHN, KGZ, RUS, TKM, UZB
- Border countries count
- 5
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- Kazakhstani tenge (₸)
- Top-level domain
- .kz, .қаз
- FIFA code
- KAZ
- Capital coordinates
- 51.16, 71.45
- Postal code format
- ######
- Gini index
- 27.8 (2018)
- Coat of arms