Explore Kazakhstan

If you are interested in Kazakhstan, you can send your explorer there. Maybe he can even bring something back for you! Let him surprise you.

Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world. It belongs partly to Europe and partly to Asia. It stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east. It shares a long border with...

Kazakhstan is home to vast deserts and steppes, but also beautiful forests and majestic mountains. The highest mountain in the country is called Khan Tengri. It is just over 7000 metres high.

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Kazakhstan's national dish is beshbarmak (бешбармақ), which translates as ‘five fingers’. It is prepared with fatty, cooked mutton and/or horse meat. It is eaten together with lasagne-like,...

Let yourself be surprised by the animals you encounter on your journey. They are real artists of life.

There are around 700 plants in Kazakhstan that grow nowhere else in the world. For example,...

Since Muslim missionaries from other countries have been living in Kazakhstan, the number of mosques and Kazakhs observing the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan has increased. In 1991 there were 68...