Top 10 Amazing Facts About Kazakhstan
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Welcome to Countries facts more specifically welcome to our every Articles where I always look at new countries from around the world really expanding our minds and yeah I got a different section there you can check out different Article about that but we'll talk about that later because right now we are gonna focus and learn about Kazakhstan now for me when I think of Kazakhstan well before doing this Article I thought it was kind of like an empty country you'll have to excuse my western side negligence but we don't really hear about that country at all from where I'm from so we're gonna fix that and before I get into that I want to know from you guys what type of government do you think is in Kazakhstan let me know in the poll up there but let's get started and let's look at some of the basics.
1 Kazakhstan is actually called the Republic of Kazakhstan which gives you an idea or a clue of what type of government it is and if we look at good old Google Maps thank you very much Google as much as I disagree with your monetization percentage share cuz you know YouTube is part of Google I'm not gonna get into that but getting back to Kazakhstan it is dead center in Central Asia and it has a land size of two million seven hundred and twenty four thousand nine hundred kilometers which makes it ranked ninth in the world that being also said Kazakhstan.
2 Kazakhstan uses the metric system don't ask me when that came into effect it did at some point I don't know when however Kazakhstan is also classified as the largest landlocked country which some of you guys may be like ah wait no Dave it's not landlocked because it's you know got the shoreline of the Caspian Sea.
3 Caspian Sea so it doesn't count well by definition a landlocked country is a country that is surrounded by other countries or by a closed-off Sea in which the Caspian Sea is closed off to the ocean currently it has five countries that surround it these are the nations of Russia China Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan and the one hiding off in the corner which I almost missed and that is Turkmenistan Russia however has the biggest border of this but one thing to be noted when it comes to its coastline it comes in at over 1,000 894 kilometers also because it's classified as a see and not an ocean that means Kazakhstan.
4 Kazakhstan does not have a maritime status at all and also side note although it does have that coastline only about 1.7 percent of the entire country has fresh water now let's jump over to let's look at the population now currently it is estimated that there is about eighteen million four hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred people making this country ranked 19th largest in the world and by that I mean largest as in population I don't mean the people of Kazakhstan.
5 Kazakhstan are giants no they're just like everybody else also with that being said the last census was done in 2017 in which it was slightly over 18 million people with that however this country actually ranks pretty low in terms of density as a matter of fact because of the population with land size there is about seven people per kilometer square making the country ranked 230 sixth which also makes me wonder what kind of people are in Kazakhstan.
6 Kazakhstan in today's world about sixty five point five percent of the people identify as Kazakh where 21.6% identifies Russian after that you've also got the Uzbek Ukrainians and Germans are surprisingly in there as well as tartar and many others and to dive a little further into that when it comes to religion about sixty five percent of the total population identify as Muslim we're about twenty six percent identifies Christian which makes me wonder how many internal conflicts are there within that country hopefully not a lot now Kazakhstan has also been around since 1465 back then it was known as the Kazakh can eight which evolved out of the golden horde which was a canÃt that evolved out of the Mongol Empire.
7 Mongol Empire by the way if you don't know what a Khan a dork an eight is don't worry about it it's basically another form of government it's just not used more in the West speaking of governments Kazakhstan identifies as a unitary parliamentary constitutional republic god that was hard to say so if you got that one right awesome this basically means that Kazakhstan.
8 Kazakhstan has one president currently as of the time of recording this video it is Nassim joe mart toki EV and there is also a prime minister who currently is a scar Mammon for the legislature they also have an upper house known as the senate and a lower house known as the Mazzilli keep in mind it wasn't always like this Kazakhstan was a part of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia which was communist this was obviously until 1991 when it split off because the Soviet Union collapsed shortly after that 1995.
9 Kazakhstan got its own constitution it's kind of interesting if you think about it a lot of ex-soviet you know states and countries they don't really have communism anymore I guess it wasn't that popular in today's world the capital of the country is Nursultan it is the second largest city with over a million people the biggest of course is all Madi which was the capital from 1991 to 1997 and currently it has a population of over two million people which actually has about 8 percent of the entire country's population keep in mind an actual recording of how many people live in the metropolitan area has not been taken so it's kind of a loose figure it's also important to note that the country has had two capitals in its short time since 1991 Nursultan was originally called Astana until it was renamed in 1998 ooh I also forgot to mention the languages of the country you've got Kazakh and Russian as the two official languages Russian.
10 Russian is the co official language but one of the most interesting things is that Kazakhstan has its own unique form of scripture or writing it's kind of a combination between Russian Cyrillic and of course Latin and Arabic Scripture it's a little bit different and as a matter of fact for a long time they use the Cyrillic alphabet but as recent as a matter of fact I think 2017 or 18 things have changed with its own alphabet this is because the government made revisions to the scripture that were put immediately into effect some of these revisions were things like apostrophes being kicked out for things like diacritic rafts so either way guys that is a brief look at the great and amazing country of Kazakhstan I know it's just a basic bit of information but do not worry because these videos are so short I generally do part twos threes fours and fives and with that if you guys are from Kazakhstan or you've been there you know anything that we've missed which I know I missed a lot feel free to put it down there and keep an eye out for another Article of this topic the best way that you can do that is subscribe to the and also check out our differnt country's Article where every day I'm always learning about a new country from around the world all there Article.
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