KAZAKHSTAN

PHYSICAL GEOPRAPHY

• Turgay valley
• Caspian depression
• Ustyurt plateau
• Altay mountains
• Turan lowland

POPULATION

• 17.16milliom

AVERAGE LIFE SPAN FOR MALE AND FEMALE

• Male-62.3
• Female-71.7

LITERACY FOR MALE AND FEMALE

• Male-99.9
• Female-99.7

CLIMATE ZONE

• Cold winters
• Hot summers
• Arid
• Semiarid

FRESH WATER AND WHAT COUNTRIES THEY SHARE WITH

• Lake aral-russia
• Caspian Sea -china
• Ural -kyrgyzstan
• Ishim-uzbekistan
• Syr darya-turkmensitan

COUNTRY GDP PER CAPITA

• 14,100

CROPS GROWN HERE

• Wheat
• Sugar
• Beets
• Rice

NATURAL RESOURCES

• Fossil fuels
• Uranium
• Copper
• Zinc
• Grain

EXPORT AND IMPORT

• Export-oil,natural gas,chemicals,grain,wool,meat,coal
• Import-machinery,equipment,metal products,foodstuff

INTERNATIONAL ISSUES

• Kyrgyzstan has yet to ratify the 2001 boundary delimitation with
• Kazakhstan;field demarcation of the boundaries commenced with
• Uzbekistan in 2004 and with turkmenistan in 2005;ongoing
• Demarcation with russia began in 2007; demarcation with china
• Was completed in 2002; creation of a seabed boundary with

Untitled Slide

• Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea remains under discussion;
• Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and russia ratified caspian seabed
• Delimitation treaties based om equidistance,while Iran
• Continues to insist on a one-fifth slice of the sea.

Untitled Slide

• Significant illicit cultivation of cannabis for CIS
• Markets,as well as limited cultivation of
• Opium poppy and ephedra (for the drug
• Ephedrine) limited government eradication
• Of illicit crops;transit point for the southwest

Untitled Slide

• Asian narcotics bound for Russia and
• The rest of Europe; significant consumer
• Of apiates