Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan ranks 69th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Paraguay, Venezuela, and Thailand. Memorable people born in present day Kazakhstan include Tomyris, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Baibars. Memorable people who died in Kazakhstan include Timur, Cyrus the Great, and Jochi. Kazakhstan has been the birth place of many politicians and athletes and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental landlocked country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest. Its capital is Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana until 2019. Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, was the country's capital until 1997. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country, the world's largest Muslim-majority country by land area, and the ninth-largest country in the world overall. It has a population of 19 million people, and one of the lowest population densities in the world, at fewer than 6 people per square kilometre. Read more on Wikipedia