By the territory, Kazakhstan takes the 9th place among the nations of the world (2 million 724.9 thousand sq. Km), the 2nd place among the CIS countries (after Russia). Location: on the eastern edge of the delta of the Volga in the west to the Altai Mountains in the east of the West Siberian Plain and the southern tip of the Urals in the north to the Tien-Shan mountain system and the Kyzylkum desert in the south.
It is bordered on the north and west with Russia - 7548.1 km in the east - with China - 1782.8 km in the south - with Kyrgyzstan - 1241.6 km, Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan 2351.4 km - 426.0 km. The total length of land borders - 13,392.6 km [12]. It is the largest country of the Turkic Council. Washed by the waters of the inland Caspian and Aral seas. Kazakhstan - the largest country that has no access to the world's oceans.
The administrative-territorial country is divided into 14 provinces and 2 cities of republican significance, Astana and Almaty, as well as the city of Baikonur, which is leased by the Russian Federation until 2050 and on the status of the respective cities of federal importance of the Russian Federation. Economic and geographically divided into Central, Western, Eastern, Northern and Southern regions.