Geography
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| Kazakhstan is located on the junction of two continents - Europe and Asia, between 45 and 87 degrees of east longitude, 40 and 55 degrees of northern breadth. The geographical center of the European-Asian subcontinent is in Kazakhstan (on an intersection 78 meridians with 50 parallel) - in epicenter of former Semipalatinsk nuclear zone. Kazakhstan occupies a square equal to 2724,9 thousand sq. km. (1048,3 thousand sq. miles) also is stretching to east from the Caspian sea and Volga's of plains up to mountain Altai from Tjan-Shan foothills in the south and southeast up to the West-Siberian lowland in north. The extent of it's territory exceeds 3000 kms from west to east (1150 miles), from the south to north - 1700 kms (650 miles). Kazakhstan is on the ninth place in the world considering the territiry occupied, i.e. USA, Brazil, Australia, India and Argentina enter the top ten of largest states of the world - after Russia, Canada, China. On Kazakhstan's territory can contain seven largest European states as France, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Finland, Italy and Great Britain, or such states of Asia, as Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq, Japan and Vietnam taken together. Only this can testify the huge potential possibilities of the this region on the globe. | ||
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| East, North and Northwest
parts of Kazakhstan bound with Russia (extent of boundary is 6477
kms), in the South - with the states of Central Asia - Uzbekistan
(2300 kms), Kyrgyzstan (980 kms) and Turkmenistan (380 kms), and
in the Southeast - with China (1460 kms). The general extent of
boundaries of Kazakhstan is almost 12,2 thousand kms, including
600 kms in the Caspian sea (in west). |