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Answer
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What is the most populous city in Kazakhstan?
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Almaty
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What is the capital city of Kazakhstan?
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Astana
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What name was given to the above between 2019–2022?
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Nur-Sultan
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After what Middle Eastern capital is Kazakhstan's tallest building named?
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Abu Dhabi
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What word, starting with S, refers to the dry grasslands that cover most of Kazakhstan?
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Steppe
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What huge inland sea is Kazakhstan one of the five countries to border?
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Caspian Sea
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What river delta is located on the coast of the above and partly in Kazakhstan too?
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Volga Delta
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Name one of Kazakhstan's two largest cities on that inland sea.
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Atyrau | Aktau
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What inland sea was formerly world's fourth largest lake and was nearly destroyed by Soviet irrigation?
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Aral Sea
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What mountain range divides Russia into Asian and European parts and then touches a little part of northwestern Kazakhstan?
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Urals
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What is the second-largest ethnic group in Kazakhstan?
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Russians
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What is the largest export of Kazakhstan?
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Oil
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What two countries does Kazakhstan almost, but not quite, border?
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Mongolia | Tajikistan
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What persecuted Turkic ethnic group mainly reside in northwestern China, but has most of their diaspora living in Kazakhstan?
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Uyghurs
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What is the second-largest lake located entirely in Asia?
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Lake Balkhash
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What "oblys" (administrative region) was formerly known as South Kazakhstan?
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Turkistan
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What type of "port" is Kazakhstan's "Baikonur Cosmodrome", currently leased to Russia, the world's largest of?
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Spaceport
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What mountain range makes most of Kazakhstan's southeastern borders?
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Tian Shan
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What river, world's longest tributary river, starts in the Chinese Altai mountains, passes largely through Kazakhstan and then becomes part of the Ob?
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Irtysh
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What major city in southern Kazakhstan is only a 2 hours drive from Tashkent?
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Shymkent
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