Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Astana
- Region
- Asia, Central Asia
- Population
- 20,843,754 (2025)
- Area
- 2,717,300 km²
- Currency
- Kazakhstani tenge (KZT)
- Languages
- Kazakh, Russian
- Calling code
- +7
- Internet domain
- .kz, .қаз
- ISO codes
- KZ, KAZ, 398
- Time zone
- UTC+5:00 to UTC+5:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Kazakhstan covers about 2,717,300 square kilometres. By area it ranks 10th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Argentina and a little larger than Algeria. It shares a land border with 5 neighbours: China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. It is landlocked, which means it has no sea coast. Its centre lies at about 48° north, 68° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 20.8 million people live in Kazakhstan (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 65th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.25 percent of the world's people. On average there are 7.7 people to each square kilometre. About 62 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 75 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Kazakh, Russian. A person from Kazakhstan is called Kazakhstani.
Money and economy
The currency is the Kazakhstani tenge (code KZT, symbol ₸). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 306 billion (2025), which is about US$ 14,692 for each person (2025).
Time
Kazakhstan spans 7 time zone areas, from UTC+5:00 to UTC+5:00. Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Almaty | 1,977,011 |
| Astana | 1,544,142 |
| Shymkent | 1,200,000 |
| Aktobe | 500,757 |
| Karagandy | 497,777 |
| Taraz | 358,153 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Central Asia
Tajikistan. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.