Kazakhstan is a country located right in the heart of Eurasia. It’s kind of sandwiched between the two world powers as Russia and China. It also borders three other “Stans” of Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and moreover shares a common soviet “Russian” history with them.

It’s size by area makes Kazakhstan the ninth largest country in the world and therefore it naturally is the ideal hub for diverse landscape that starts as lowlands in the west (130 meters or about 430 ft below sea level) and ends by a 7 000 meters (approx. 23000 ft) peak in the south east, called Khan Tengri.

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