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Five Themes of Geography

Five Themes of Geography. Fact Sheet for ___Kazakhstan___ Completed by _ Katie Stephens ___. Country. Kazakhstan. Location. Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia, northwest of China; a small portion west of the Ural River in eastern-most Europe. Natural Resources.

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Five Themes of Geography

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  1. Five Themes of Geography Fact Sheet for ___Kazakhstan___ Completed by _ Katie Stephens ___

  2. Country Kazakhstan

  3. Location Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia, northwest of China; a small portion west of the Ural River in eastern-most Europe

  4. Natural Resources • Natural Resources: major deposits of petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, manganese, chrome ore, nickel, cobalt, copper, molybdenum, lead, zinc, bauxite, gold, uranium. • Kazakhstan is well known for its oil and gas reserves. They are believed to provide a reliable basis for the development of the oil-and-gas complex, and for the replenishment and increase of Kazakhstan's wealth. • There are more than 200 oil and gas fields in the Republic.

  5. Population 15,340,533 people Ethnically, the country is as diverse, with the Kazakhs making up over half the population, the Russians comprising just over a quarter, and smaller minorities of Ukrainians, Germans, Chechens, Kurds, Koreans and Central Asian ethnic groups accounting for the rest.

  6. Regions Southern Kazakhstan includes the Almaty, Zhambil, South Kazakhstan and Kyzylorda Regions. Northern Kazakhstan includes the North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Akmola and Kostanay Regions. Central Kazakhstan covers 398.8 thousand sq. km. Its population 1.72 million people, with a population density of 4.5 people per sq. km., 86% of whom live in towns and settlements. Eastern Kazakhstan consists of the East Kazakhstan Region. Western Kazakhstan includes the West Kazakhstan, Atyrau, Mangistau and Aktyubinsk Regions.

  7. Human Environment Interaction • “Radioactive or toxic chemical sites associated with former defense industries and test ranges scattered throughout the country pose health risks for humans and animals; industrial pollution is severe in some cities,” (CIA). • Decades of nuclear testing has caused horrible birth defects First Soviet atomic bomb The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. Joe-1 was a direct copy of the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki and had a yield of about 20 kilotons.

  8. Interesting Facts Kazakhstan has three time zones. The Republic is a multinational state inhabited with representatives of more than 120 nationalities. Kazakhstan is more than twice as big as the four other Central Asian republics put together and is roughly half the size of mainland USA.

  9. Hands On Assignment Handy Crafts – Headdresses Materials: poster paper, beads, yarn, glue, markers/crayons Students can make their own unique Kazakhstani headdresses to wear for the day

  10. Works Cited • CIA-The World Factbook. 20 November 2008. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kz.html#Geo>. • “Kazakhstan: Business and Economy.” Welcome to the Embassy of Kazakhstan to the USA & Canada. 18 June 2008. 01 December 2008. <http://prositeskazakhembus.homestead.com/Oil.html>. • “Kazakhstan.” Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. (2004, July 22). FL: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Retrieved December 1, 2008. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan>.

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