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Kazakhstan – the country of Nomads

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Kazakhstan – the country of
Nomads

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The territory of Kazakhstan
• Kazakhstan is the world's largest
landlocked country
• The ninth largest in the world
• It shares borders with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, and also adjoins a
large part of the Caspian Sea.
• 18,5 million people

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Kazakhstan on the Map

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Let’s compare

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The languages of Kazakhstan
• Kazakh – the native language
• Russian – the official language

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The 2 cities
• Astana – the capital city
• Almaty – the largest city, previous capital
(1997)

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Astana

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Almaty

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Almaty – the city of Apples

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The People of Kazakhstan
• 131 ethnicities
• Kazakhs (63% of the
population), Russians, Uzbeks, Ukrainians,
Germans, Tatars, and Uyghurs, Georgians

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The Schools

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The Nature of Kazakhstan
• Over six thousand kinds of plants are
growing in Kazakhstan
• 515 of them grow in Kazakhstan only
• Tulips are believed to first grow on the
land of modern Kazakhstan
• Some of them are rare - Galanthus

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Fauna of Kazakhstan
500 kinds of birds
178 kinds of animals
12 kinds of amphibians
and in the rivers and lakes - 107 kinds of
fishes
• A lot of them are in the Red Book of rare
species – Snow leopard, Saiga antelope,
Steppe eagle, mountain sheep, sand cat,
Palas’s cat and many more

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Landscapes and sightseeing

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Burabay lake - Zhumbaktas

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The Kayindy Lake

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The Charyn Canyon

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Nauryz – 22 March

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Baykonur

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Balkhash Lake

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Thank you for watching and see
you in Kazakhstan!!!
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