1. Kazakhstan is the ninth largest in the world by area.
2. More than 120 nationalities live in the territory of Kazakhstan.
3. all the elements of the periodic table are in the bowels of Kazakhstan.
4. The capital of Kazakhstan - Astana - the youngest capital in the world.
5. Kazakhstan has banned the use of alcohol and smoking in public places. Also, the past few years has been actively trying to ban hookah. Sale of hard alcohol from 21.00 to 12.00 hours is prohibited.
6. Before the end of 1998, the city of Almaty was the capital of Kazakhstan. Residents of the old and new capital are often in conflict because, whose city is better and more important.
7. Kazakhstan is the first and the world's largest Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was with him was made the first manned space flight, the world's first artificial satellite of the Earth and artificial satellites were launched Sun, the Moon and Venus.
8. The name of the city "Astana" Kazakh language means "capital".
9. The majority of young people tends to get into the civil service.
10. Kazakhstan declared its independence 16 December 1991, thus becoming
the last state, which came from the USSR.
11. Following the collapse of the USSR the Republic of Kazakhstan has got the world's fourth nuclear arsenal. A little more than 15 years, Kazakhstan has managed to completely get rid of the nuclear legacy. In 1994, Kazakhstan has sold US weapons-grade uranium, and in April 1995 the country exported all nuclear weapons in Russia.
12. The state language of Kazakhstan - Kazakh, but Russian is also widely spoken and is the official language, which is used together with the state. The northern and eastern regions of greater say in Russian, while the western and southern mainly in Kazakh.
13. Incredibly, the horses were first domesticated in the territory of modern Kazakhstan.
14. Kazakh alphabet - an alphabet based on the Cyrillic alphabet contains 42 letters: the 33 letters of the Russian alphabet and 9 specific letters of Kazakh language. At different times for the Kazakh language used different writing systems: Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic alphabet.
15. The Kazakh language is constantly supplemented with new words. Not so long ago invented a new word - "galamtor", which means the Internet.
