KAZAKHSTAN

Сәлем!, Қош келдіңіз!

Welcome to a vast land of over a million square miles, larger than Western Europe, the 9th largest country in the world, yet a land steeped in mystery to many. Independent from the Soviet Union since 1991, it is a land of taiga, canyons, towering snow-capped mountains, steppes and desert, bordering Russia to the North, the Caspian sea in the South West, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan in the South to China in the East and close to Mongolia in the North East. A land rich in oil and mineral resources, traditionally of nomadic lifestyle. A land of bears, Caspian Sea wolves, camels, saiga, great bustards,...