Covering more than 2.7 million square kilometers (over one million square miles), it is the ninth biggest country in the world. It is also the largest landlocked country, because the Caspian Sea is technically a vast lake. Kazakhstan lists among its many neighbors the Turkic states of Uzbekist...
Kazakhstan’s Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve is a different place now than it was a decade ago. The delta ecosystem, which occupies around4,151 square kilometers(1,603 square miles) across the country’s Almaty and Balkhash region, was devoid of large mammals, and its scrub, marshland, ...