RUSSIA, TAJIKSTAN, AND KAZAKHSTAN

RUSSIA

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POPULATION PYRIMID 2000

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RUSSIA POPULATION PYRAMID 2050

RUSSIA GEOGRAPHY

• Total population:142,470,272
• Total Area: 17,098,242 sq. KM
• Major physical features:
• World's Largest country, Mt. Elburs

RUSSIA ECONOMY

• GDP: 2.553 trillion
• GDP per capita: $18,100
• Natural Resources: energy supplies,
• Mineral deposits, hydroelectric power

THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA

• Birth Rates: 11.87 births/1000 population
• Death rates: 13.83 deaths/1000 population
• Fertility rate: 1.61 children born/woman

MEDIAN AGE

• male: 36 years
• female: 41.9 years

LIFE EXPECTANCY

• female: 76.3 years
• male: 64.37 years

Russian Climate
Humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north. Winters vary from cool along the Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia. Summers vary from warm in the steps to cool along the Arctic Coast.

ETHNIC GROUPS

• 77.7% Russian
• 3.7% Tartar
• 1.4% Ukrainian
• 10.2% other
• 3.9% unspecified

MAJOR RELIGIONS

• Russian orthodox: 15-20%
• Muslims: 10-15%
• Other Christian: 2%

LITERACY rATES

• Total: 99.7%
• Male: 99.7%
• Female: 99.6%

MAJOR LANGUAGES

• Russian (official): 96.3%
• Dolang: 5.3%
• German: 1.5%
• Tartar: 3%
• Other: 10.3%

MAJOR POLITICAL FEATURES

• The capital, Moscow
• Cities with a population over 1million
• Saint Petersburg
• Novosibrisk
• Volgograd

Russia's Government
Russia is a federation and a semi-presidential republic. The president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government.

Brief History
The Russian state bargain in the region between the Baltic and Black seas. In the 9th century Vikings from Scandinavia arrived. Expansion halted in the 13th century with the arrival of invaders crime Mongolia, they Controlled the area until the 15th century. Russia took control again and by the 17th century it had built an empire that expanded to the Pacific Ocean. After WWII Russia got invoked with the Cold War and took over most of Eastern Europe with the USSR. The
USSR ended in 1991.

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KAZAHSTAN

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POPULATIOM PYRAMID 2000

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TAJIKISTAN

TAJIKISTAN POLITICAL MAP

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POPULATION PYRAMID 2000

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TAJIKISTAN GEOGRAPHY

• Population: 8.009 million
• Area: 55,257sq miles
• Physical features:
• Aloy Mountians,rivers are fed by glaciers

TAJIKISTAN ECONOMY

• GDP: 7.4%
• GDP Per capita: 2,300$
• Natural resources:
• Hydropower,uraniumm
• Lead,zinc,gold,silver

THE PEOPLE OF TAJIKISTAN

• Birth rate: 24.99
• Death rate: 6.28
• Fertility rate: 2.76

MEDIAN AGE

• Female:24 years
• Male:23 years
• Total: 23.5 years

LIFE EXPECTANCY

• Male: 63.96 years
• Female: 70.32 years

CLIMATE
Mid-latitude continental , hot summers, mild winters, semi-arid to polar in Pamir mountains.

ETHNIC GROUPS

• Sunni muslims: 80%
• Mostly Uzbeks, Russians, Tatars, and Ukrainians

RELIGION

• Islam( sunnism and shism)

LITERACY RATES

• Total:98%
• Female: 98%
• Male:98%

LANGUAGES

• Tajik(official),
• Russian widely used in government and bussiness

MAJOR POLITICAL FEATURES

• Capital: Dushanbe
• Cities of more than 10,000 people
• Khujand
• Kulab

Brief history
The current Tajik Republic harkens to the Samanid Empore. The Tajik people came under Russian rule in the Russian Revolution of 1917 was quelled in the early 1920s and became an Soviet socialist republic in 1924. Tajikisatn gained independence in 1991.

GOVERNMENT
A presidential republic, whereby the president is both the head of the state and the head if the government.

KAZAKHSTAN GEOGRAPHY

• Population: 17,948,816
• Area: 1.049 million
• Physical features:
• Kyzl kum desert, caspian sea
• Arial sea

ECONOMY

• GDP: 201.7 billion
• GDP per capita: 12,006.59$
• Natural resources:
• Petroleum, natural gas,coal,
• Iron ore, manganese,nickel

THE PEOPLE

• Birth rate: 22.4 births/1000 population
• Death rates: 8.9 deaths/1000 population
• Fertility rate: 2.34 children

MEDIAN AGE

• Total: 29.7 years
• Male: 28.4 years
• Female: 31.1 years

LIFE EXPECTANCY

• Total: 70.24 years
• Male: 64.9 years
• Female: 75.17 years

Climate
Continental, cold winters, hot summers, arid and semi arid.

ETHNIC GROUPS

• Kazakh: 53.4%
• Russian: 30%
• Ukrainian: 3.7%

MAJOR RELIGIONS

• Muslims: 70.2%
• Christians: 26.2%
• Buddist: .1%

LITERACY RATES

• Total: 99.7%
• Male: 99.8%
• Female: 99.7%

MAJOR LANGUAGES

• Kazakh: 64.4%
• Russian: 23.7%
• UZbeck: 2.8%
• German: 1.1%

MAJOR POLITICAL FEATURES

• Capital: Astana
• 17 million in Kazakhstan
• Almaty
• Taraz
• Astana

Government
Republic; authoritarian presidential rule, with little power outside the executive branch.

History
Kazakhstan was originally inhabited by nomadic tribes. In the 13th century the land was invaded by the Mongol Empire and became territories of the Kazakh Khanate. During this time the cities of Taraz and Turkestan were established as trade cities along the Great Silk Road. When the Kazakh Khanate began to break up in the 1700s, the area began to be colonized by the Russian Empire. After the fall of the Russian Empire, the Kazakhs experienced a brief time of independence, but soon became part of the Soviet Union. In 1953, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev started the Virgin Lands program. This was an effort to take Kasakhstan's agricultural based economy and industrialize it.

In 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan became an independent nation. The country has since made great strides in developing a market economy and has had strong economic growth since 2000.