Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Germans of Kazakhstan (German: Kasachstandeutsche; Kazakh: Қазақстандық немістер) are a minority in Kazakhstan, and make up a small percentage of the population. Today they live mostly in the northeastern part of the country between the cities of Astana and Oskemen , the majority being urban dwellers.
to present-day Kazakhstan and other former republics (Except Baltic countries) 6 July: Capital City Day: Астана күні (Astana kúni) День столицы (Den' stolitsy) Birthday of the first President of Kazakhstan 30 August: Constitution Day: Конституция күні (Konstıtýcıya kúni)
Thus, in Kazakhstan, only a third of them were recorded as Turks on their passports. The rest had been arbitrarily declared members of other ethnic groups. [17] [18] According to academics there are 150,000 Turks who reside in Kazakhstan. 45,000 in Almaty, 40,000 in South Kazakhstan, 36,000 in Zhambil and 10,000 in Qyzylorda. [19]
The Chinese government's top diplomat has thanked Kazakhstan for its support for a controversial de-radicalization program in China's far western region of Xinjiang, and said others should follow ...
In Kazakhstan, the Tazy has been a hunting companion for centuries. But with fewer than 300 purebred Tazys left, they’re on the brink of extinction. The government is stepping in to save these ...
Kazakhstan's dominant ethnic group, the Kazakhs, traces its origin to the 15th century, when after disintegration of Golden Horde, number of Turkic and Turco-Mongol tribes united to establish the Kazakh Khanate. With a cohesive culture and a national identity, they constituted an absolute majority on the land until Russian colonization.
Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country. Kazakh (part of the Kipchak sub-branch of the Turkic languages) is proficiently spoken by 80.1% of the population according to 2021 census, and has the status of "state language". Russian, on the other hand, is spoken by 83.7% as of 2021. [1]
Official estimates put the population of Kazakhstan at 20,182,003 as of August 2024, of which 62.7% is urban and 37.3% is rural population. [13] In a report released by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in September 2021, the level of urbanization in Kazakhstan is estimated to reach 69.1% by 2050.