Kazakhstan

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
KZ
ISO alpha-3
KAZ
ISO numeric
398
FIPS 10-4
KZ
GeoNames ID
1522867

Key facts

Capital
Nur-Sultan
Area
2,717,300 km²
Population
18,276,499
Currency
Tenge (KZT)
Calling code
+7
Top-level domain
.kz
Official languages
kk,ru

Continent

Name
Asia
Code
AS
In this dataset
51 countries

Asia in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
48
Longitude
68
Min latitude
40.58465566000011
Min longitude
46.47827884900005
Max latitude
55.43455027300003
Max longitude
87.32379602100013

Boundary

Kazakhstan

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/KZ?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 2717300,
    "capital": "Nur-Sultan",
    "continent_code": "AS",
    "currency_code": "KZT",
    "iso3_code": "KAZ",
    "iso_code": "KZ",
    "name": "Kazakhstan",
    "population": 18276499
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/KZ/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=KZ
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=KZ
  • /v1/timezones?country=KZ
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Name in other languages

Arabic
كازاخستان
Chinese
哈萨克斯坦
English
Kazakhstan
French
Kazakhstan
German
Kasachstan
Hindi
कज़ाकस्तान
Italian
Kazakistan
Japanese
カザフスタン
Korean
카자흐스탄
Portuguese
Cazaquistão
Russian
Казахстан
Spanish
Kazajstán
Total language variants
147

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
Asia/Almaty UTC+05:00 UTC+05:00
Asia/Aqtau UTC+05:00 UTC+05:00
Asia/Aqtobe UTC+05:00 UTC+05:00
Asia/Atyrau UTC+05:00 UTC+05:00
Asia/Oral UTC+05:00 UTC+05:00
Asia/Qostanay UTC+05:00 UTC+05:00
Asia/Qyzylorda UTC+05:00 UTC+05:00

Postal code format

Format
######
Pattern
^(\d{6})$

First-level administrative regions

  • Turkistan
  • Almaty Oblysy
  • Almaty
  • East Kazakhstan
  • Qaraghandy Oblysy
  • Zhambyl Oblysy
  • Shymkent
  • Qostanay Oblysy
  • Astana
  • Aktyubinskaya Oblast’
  • Pavlodar Region
  • Aqmola Oblysy
  • Qyzylorda Oblysy
  • Abai Region
  • West Kazakhstan
  • Mangistauskaya Oblast’
  • North Kazakhstan
  • Atyrau Region
  • Ulytau Region
  • Baikonur
  • Jetisu Region

21 of 21 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
Almaty 1,977,011
Astana 1,544,142
Shymkent 1,200,000
Aktobe 500,757
Karagandy 497,777
Taraz 358,153
Kyzylorda 354,800
Oral 330,000
Pavlodar 329,002
Ust-Kamenogorsk 319,067

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
13,563
First-level regions
21
Postal codes
0
Name languages
147
Boundary polygon
Yes

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