UPDATED JANUARY 2025: If you ask how many countries in the world are there in 2024. Well, the answer is that technically speaking there are 197 countries in the world. From a travel perspective, you could argue there are 215 countries. I’ve visited them all! Although it’s pretty compli...
Russia shares a border with 14 countries: Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine. Is Antarctica a Country? No, Antarctica is not a country. Antarctica is a continent and no single country has jur...
The countries of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey all have portions of their countries that fall within the continents of both Asia and Europe. List of Countries in Asia *Represents Dependent Territories or Partially Unrecognized States The countries ofChinaand India are by far the...
Climate change is coming for Kazakhstan, as it is for many countries in Central Asia.A recent reportby the World Bank found the nation’s average temperature could rise a staggering 5.3 Celsius by the end of the century. If that happens, it could upend Kazakhstan’s delicate climate systems,...
China has invested over $76 million in a dry port at the Khorgos Special Economic Zone on the border between Kazakhstan and China. This not only helps facilitate the trading of goods from China to the world, but also helps to increase Beijing's foreign direct investment into Kazakhstan, ...
US federal agents at the Texas border arrested as many as 6,555 people when they tried to enter the US illegally. This is an increase in 86 per cent from the previous year. Nicaragua and the Honduras, two of the poorest nations in the hemisphere, were hit the h...
Best Kazakhstan Train Routes Here are some helpful train routes for getting around. Note that schedules change periodically and not all trains run daily (many run every other day on even or odd-numbered dates). While northbound trains from Astana stop at Borovoye/Shchuchinsk, it might be easi...
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The old trade routes of the silk road give travellers endless options to explore central Asia, from lake-scattered mountain plateaus to ornate mausoleum complexes and lively cities packed with soviet architecture.
Tips for traveling by train in Kazakhstan Food and drinks The wagon restaurant serves typical Central Asian food, likeplovorlagman,and the quality is according to the region’s standards. On the other hand, at the different stations, you will always see many vendors getting on the train, sell...