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As a result of this shift the ethnic kazakh share of the population now exceeds two thirds.

Ethnic map kazakhstan. Kazakhstans dominant ethnic group the kazakhs traces its origin to the 15th century when a number of turkic and some mongol tribes united to establish the kazakh khanatewith a cohesive culture and a national identity they constituted absolute majority on the land until russian colonization. The kazakhs are the largest ethnic group in kazakhstan with an estimated population of 11 million people as of 2007. They use the kazakh language which is written in cyrillic but some kazakhs living in china use an arabic derived alphabetin 2006 the president of kazakhstan proposed a shift from the use of cyrillic to latin.

Media in category maps of ethnic groups in kazakhstan the following 22 files are in this category out of 22 total. The capital of kazakhstan is astana which has a population of 835000. Astana is the second largest city in kazakhstan.

The largest is almaty the former capital which is also a major cultural and commercial centeralmaty has a population of 155 million people with a density of 2300 people per square kilometer 5900square mile. This map shows ethnic groups in kazakhstan. Go back to see more maps of kazakhstan cities of kazakhstan.

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Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of central asia economically generating 60 of the regions gdp primarily through its oil and gas industry. It also has vast mineral resources. Kazakhstan is officially a democratic secular unitary constitutional republic with a diverse cultural heritage.

Also the map is between 1991 and 1992 because in 1993 alma ata was renamed almaty. The map also shows guryev which was the name of atyrau until 1992 so this map was probably made at or very soon after the 5 republics were independent. Kazakhstans distinct regional patterns of settlement depend in part on its varied ethnic makeup.

Slavs russians ukrainians and belarusianslargely populate the northern plains where they congregate in large villages that originally served as the centres of collective and state farms. Non muslim ethnic minorities departed kazakhstan in large numbers from the mid 1990s through the mid 2000s and a national program has repatriated about a million ethnic kazakhs back to kazakhstan.