Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan is a country in the middle of Eurasia. Its official name is the Republic of Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is the ninth biggest country in the world. Before the end of the Soviet Union, it was called "Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic". The president of the country since 1991 is called Nursultan Nazarbayev. Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. Almaty was the capital before 1998.
Russia leases (rents) the land for the Baykonur Cosmodrome (site of Russian spacecraft launches) from Kazakhstan.
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[change] Geography
Kazakhstan is not landlocked, but borders the Caspian Sea, which boats can use to get to the Atlantic Ocean by sailing through the Mediterranean Sea.
[change] Location
Russia has the longest border with Kazakhstan. Other countries next to Kazakhstan are China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
[change] Pop culture
A film parodying the Republic of Kazakhstan called Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was made by Sacha Baron Cohen. He played a fictional Kazakh journalist named Borat Sagdiyev, although Baron Cohen is actually from the United Kingdom. The journalist was supposed to be making a movie depicting Kazakhs. The film showed Kazakhs as primitive prostitutes and rapists. The film made £27,000,000 (27 million pounds). The economy was bad when the movie came out.[1]
[change] Other websites
- ↑ "Borat film 'tricked' poor village actors" Daily Mail, July 26, 2007.
Official Website of Kazakh Parliament, in Қазақша, Русский, and English
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