Kazakhstan

About Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan sprawls across the heart of Central Asia, a land of endless steppe, desert, and snow-capped mountains reaching from the Caspian Sea to the Altai. Its purpose-built capital, Astana, gleams with futuristic architecture amid the northern plains. Once a key stretch of the Silk Road and a homeland of nomadic horsemen, it is the world's largest landlocked country and a long-standing gateway to space.

• ·The name of Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, literally means 'capital city' in Kazakh.
• ·The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan launched both the first satellite, Sputnik, and the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.
• ·Wild apples still grow in Kazakhstan's mountains, where the ancestor of the domesticated apple is thought to have originated near Almaty.

Mastery

1. Capital
2. Flag
3. Shape
4. Drop
5. Borders
6. Population
7. Landmark

Neighbours

• China
• Kyrgyzstan
• Russia
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan