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  • ...dlocked country]], and the [[List of countries and outlying territories by land area|ninth largest]] in the world, with an area of {{convert|2,724,900|km² ...nsus2010 |publisher=Stat.kz|accessdate=1 June 2010}}</ref> Given its large land area, its [[List of countries by population density|population density]] is
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  • ...arly 1940s, forced into service by the Japanese government to work in coal mines in Sakhalin (then known as [[Karafuto Prefecture]]) in order to fill labour ...{harvnb|Pohl|1999|p=9}}</ref> Many peasants considered [[Siberia]] to be a land where they could lead better lives, and so they subsequently migrated there
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  • ...g: (...) we find recorded north of the territory of the "fish dragons" the land of the Whites (Bai), whose bodies are white and whose long hair falls on th ...of the 4 Imams at their tomb and after Yusuf Qadir Khan's conquest of new land in Altishahr towards the east, he adopted the title "King of the East and C
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  • ...a number of environmental challenges, including [[industrial pollution]], land degradation and desertification, and contamination from its former role in ...District of the Aqtobe Region. Although surrounded by a group of existing mines, it had never been worked. The ore grade reportedly averages 48% Cr2O3 with
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  • ...ally Arkalyk was a centre for the Soviet space programme. Cosmonauts would land on the huge central Kazakh steppe and come back to Arkalyk before heading t ...mangeldy bauxite deposits construct and put into operation Torghay bauxite mines ». In the 1960s Arkalyk was declared the All-Union shock Komsomol building
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  • ...>http://www.prvregion.narod.ru/data/hstpm/v_plen_u.htm Swedish POW in Ural mines</ref> ...put them in Astrakhan Garrison and on Ural Cossack Line to protect Russian land against Kazakhs and Kirgizian riders, where they joined the military expedi
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  • ...trade with China]], which at sea was conducted mostly through India and on land was handled by numerous intermediaries such as the [[Sogdia]]ns.<ref>[[Warw ...were not very far from the [[lapis lazuli]] and [[spinel]] ("Balas Ruby") mines in [[Badakhshan]], and, although separated by the formidable [[Pamir Mounta
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  • ...in [[land management]] where he started as a [[Civil Engineering#Surveying|land surveyor]] and then in [[metallurgy]]. He graduated from the Dniprodzerzhyn ...Union)|Eighth Five-Year Plan]] (1966–1970), the output of factories and mines increased by 138%, compared to 1960. While the Politburo became aggressivel
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  • ...e Sassanid throne to his son, [[Hormizd II]]. Unrest spread throughout the land, and while Hormizd II suppressed revolts in [[Sakastan]] and Kushan, he was ...t up a commission to survey the taxes, to judge if they were more than the land could bear.<ref>''The Caliphs and Their Non-Muslim Subjects''. A. S. Tritto
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