Key facts
Capital:Nur-Sultan
Location:Central Asia, northwest of China; a small portion west of the Ural (Oral) River in easternmost Europe
Currency:tenge (KZT)
Area:2,724,900 sq km
Population:19,245,793 (July 2021 est.)
Languages:Kazakh (official, Qazaq) 83.1% (understand spoken language) and trilingual (Kazakh, Russian, English) 22.3% (2017 est.); Russian (official, used in everyday business, designated the "language of interethnic communication") 94.4% (understand spoken language) (2009 est.)
Religion:Muslim 70.2%, Christian 26.2% (mainly Russian Orthodox), other 0.2%, atheist 2.8%, unspecified 0.5% (2009 est.)
TimeZone:UTC+6
Tel Code:+7
