The city is situated at the height of 700—900 m above the sea level. Its territory is 250 sq. km, its population is 1.3 million people. The most important places of interest are sport complex “Medeo”, skiing centre “Chimbulak”, various museums and theatres. Almaty is the place of the National Academy of Sciences, universities, higher educational establishments, hundreds of secondary schools. In 1997 in connection with the transfer of the capital to Astana, Almaty got the particular status of political, financial, economic, scientific and cultural centre of the state. Almaty is a real pearl of Kazakhstan. It is one of the centres of the international tourism and one of the attractive cities in the Euro-Asian continent. Modern Almaty is a sport centre. Almaty won the international recognition thanks to such events as “Asian Games 2011”. Almaty will host the World Winter Universiada of 2017. By the opening of the Universiada, the city will have a sports village, new ice palace and many other modern facilities built in its territory. составте по этому тексту 5 вопросов с ответами