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1. Contains the world's first and largest operational space facility?
2. Is the least populated?
3. Is the most populated?
4. Is the largest by area?
5. Doesn't use the cyrillic alphabet?
6. Is one of the only two double landlocked countries?
7. Is the only "stan" country not to be landlocked?
8. Has renamed its capital city after their former president Nursultan Nazarbayev
9. Contains the silk road cities of Samarqand, Bukhara and Tashkent