Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan is a country in Eurasia. Before the end of the Soviet Union, it was called "Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic". The president of the country since 1991 is called Nursultan Nazarbayev. Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. Almaty was the capital before 1998.
Russia leases (rents) the land for the Baykonur Cosmodrome (site of Russian spacecraft launches) from Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan is "landlocked", meaning it does not touch any oceans, but it is one of the countries that border the Caspian Sea, which boats can use to get to the Atlantic Ocean by sailing through the Mediterranean Sea.
Russia has the longest border with Kazakhstan. Other countries next to Kazakhstan are China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
listen ? to the national anthem of Kazakhstan.
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