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• List of museums in Kazakhstan
  This is a '''list of museums in Kazakhstan'''. * [[National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan]]
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• Outline of Kazakhstan
  part of the set of 700+ outlines listed at a special type of list article.
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• Uranium mining in Kazakhstan
  ...y]]. By 2011, Kazakhstan was considered to be the world's largest producer of uranium.<ref name="MerkelSchipek2011">{{cite book|last1=Merkel|first1=Brode ...5% of the world's uranium, and in 2011, Kazakhstan was responsible for 35% of world production. There are 17 uranium mines in the country, however, maxim
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• Karachaganak Field
  ...ry of [[Gazprom]]. Kazakhgas took over operatorship after the independence of Kazakhstan in 1992. In 1992, [[AGIP]] (now [[Eni]]) and the then [[British | work=US Department of State
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• Kashagan Field
  ...11}}</ref> The field, discovered in 2000, is located in the northern part of the Caspian Sea close to [[Atyrau]] and is considered the world's largest d ...[hydrogen sulfide]], together with mismanagement and disputes, make it one of the most challenging [[oil megaprojects]].<ref name=ft261112>
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• Dzungarian Gate
  | photo_caption = Satellite photograph of the Dzungarian Gate, the pale, [[fault-line]]d valley running between [[Lak | map_caption = The Dzungarian Gate in Kazakhstan on the border of China.
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• Aralkum Desert
  |image_caption = Aralkum with the remaining areas of the Aral Sea in 2014 |geology =
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• Kazakhstania
  ...illion km². The [[Junggar basin]] in [[Xinjiang]], [[China]] is also part of Kazakhstania, though sometimes referred to as the '''Junggar Block'''. ...[[Baltica]] collided in the [[Ural orogeny]], creating the basis for most of present-day [[Eurasia]].
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• Ural Mountains
  |geology= ...proximately from north to south through [[western Russia]], from the coast of the [[Arctic Ocean]] to the [[Ural River]] and northwestern [[Kazakhstan]].
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• Main Uralian Fault
  ...volcanics as well as the sediments of the western continental margin zones of the Siberian craton ([[Angara Plate]]) on the north and the [[Kazakhstania| ...London, Memoirs'', 32, 83–95.</ref><ref>Victor N. Puchkov. The evolution of the Uralian orogen. ''Geological Society, London, Special Publications'', 2
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• Ural (region)
  | image1 = Map of Russia - Urals Federal District.svg ...Volga]] and eastern [[Siberia]] neighbor regions. At points in time, parts of the Urals were considered a gateway to Siberia, if not Siberia itself, or w
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• Tian Shan
  {{About|the mountain|district of Ürümqi|Tianshan District}} | geology= | period=Cenozoic | orogeny=
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• Altai Mountains
  |piccap=Map of the Altai mountain range ...99° E, where it gradually becomes lower and merges into the high plateau of the [[Gobi Desert]].
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• Lake Zaysan
  ...085/Lake-Zaysan]</ref> thus, in some sources the lake is indicated as part of an artificial reservoir.<ref>''Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary, Moscow'', 19 ...icial reservoirs cover large surrounding areas. Modern geological analysis of the entire field, apparently, supports an exceptionally old age for Lake Za
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• Pazyryk burials
  ...lateau]] in the [[Altai Mountains]], [[Siberia]], south of the modern city of [[Novosibirsk]], [[Russia]]; the site is close to the borders with [[China ...wider [[Pazyryk culture]]. The site is included in the [[Golden Mountains of Altai]] [[UNESCO World Heritage Site]].<ref>{{cite web
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• Caspian Depression
  ...sing the northern part of the [[Caspian Sea]], the largest enclosed [[body of water]] on [[Earth]].<ref>{{cite web }}</ref> It is the larger northern part of the wider [[Aral-Caspian Depression]] around the [[Aral Sea|Aral]] and Casp
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• Lake Balkhash
  |caption_bathymetry = Map of the Lake Balkhash drainage basin ...(meteorology)|precipitation]], largely vernal snowmelt, from the mountains of China's [[Xinjiang]] region.
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• Caspian Sea
  |islands = [[:Category:Islands of the Caspian Sea|26+]] |islands_category = Islands of the Caspian Sea
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• Central Asian Orogenic Belt
  ...a record of geodynamic processes during one of the most important episodes of [[continent]]al growth in [[Phanerozoic]] time. ...uratia]] in southern Siberia south of [[Lake Baikal]], and in the Far East of China and Russia.
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• Macroolithus
  | image_caption = A pair of ''Macroolithus yaotunensis'' eggs ...nests consist of large, concentric rings of paired eggs. There is evidence of blue-green pigmentation in its shell, which may have helped camouflage the
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• Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve
  ...ksu, and the mountain chain Zhabagly which is located in the northern part of the area. ...Canyon]] which is 500m deep, and can only be crossed in the southern part of the reserve by walking over a narrow pedestrian bridge.
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• Snakehead (fish)
  ...scription of a new genus and species of channid (channiformes). ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28 (1): 41-52''</ref> ...orm]] [[fish]] family '''Channidae''', native to parts of [[Africa]] and [[Asia]]. These elongated, [[predatory fish]] are distinguished by their long [[d
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• Soviet Central Asia
  ...c projection).svg|thumb|300px|Middle Asia|alt=Middle Asia is not a Central Asia]] ...Asia borders4.png|thumb|250px|Map of '''Central Asia''' showing three sets of possible [[Eurasia]]n boundaries for the region]]
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• Adilbek Zhaksybekov
  |office = [[Astana|Mayor of Astana]] |office2 = [[Defence Minister of Kazakhstan|Minister of Defense of Kazakhstan]]
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