Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan possesses huge natural and geographical potential. On the occupied area the republic takes the ninth place in the world - 2 717 300 square kilometers. In its territory all countries of the European Union freely could go in. When in southern areas the dried apricots blossom, in the north of the country blizzards still storm. In territory of Kazakhstan severe Siberia and hot Asia, a mountain taiga and sandy deserts, extensive lowlands and powerful mountain ridges converge as though. Presence of extensive deserted and semidesertic territories has caused low population density - 6,2 persons on 1 square kilometer that is considerable below indicators of some the world countries. From 105 elements of the table of Mendeleyev in bowels of Kazakhstan it is revealed 99, stocks on 70 are reconnoitered, is involved in manufacture of 60 chemical elements. On nature-climatic and economic conditions Kazakhstan shares on five zones. In the southern and northern regions making about half of territory of Kazakhstan, lives two thirds of population. In the western region occupying over a quarter of territory, the eighth part of the population lives only.
East Kazakhstan occupies the space of 277 thousand square kilometers. The population - 1 772 thousand persons, average population density exceeds an indicator on the country a little. Natural resources are various and lie down according to a relief, climatic and soil-vegetative zones. Here there is almost half of large forests of the country, bowels are sated polymetallic and vanadic ores. The basic industries - nonferrous metallurgy, mechanical engineering, manufacture of devices and condensers, electric power industry, chemical and woodworking.
North Kazakhstan - the main granary of the country, leading economic region. The agriculture and the industry are developed. The area of 600, 9 thousand square kilometers, the population - 4 431 thousand person, density - 7,2 persons on 1 square kilometer. Here pass railway and river highways. Bowels are rather rich with stone and brown coal, iron and copper ore, bauxites, gold. Fuel and energy, mining branches, mechanical engineering are developed, there are oil refining enterprises, for manufacture of ferroalloys, aluminum, tractors. The important place in region economy occupies agriculture. Three quarters of an area under crops are taken away under grain crops. The region is the basic manufacturer of commercial crops. The food-processing industry is developed.
Territory of the Central Kazakhstan - 398,8 thousand square kilometers. The population - 1 728,7 thousand persons. Population density - 4,5 persons on square kilometer, lives 86 % in cities and settlements. The central Kazakhstan - a treasury of natural riches. Here the centers of the coal-mining and chemical industry, black and nonferrous metallurgy, mechanical engineering, the building industry are placed.
South Kazakhstan - rather less developed part of the country. The region area - 712,2 thousand square kilometers, the population of 6 363 thousand persons. An indicator of population density the highest in the country - nearby 9 persons on 1 square kilometer. The main area of irrigation agriculture, gardening is developed, wine growing, cultivation of a cotton, a sugar beet, fig. On the basis of agriculture the food and easy industries had development. The metallurgical, mountain-chemical, machine-building, oil-extracting and oil refining industries roughly develop. The world's largest complex on extraction of phosphoric fertilizers and phosphoric salts is created.
Territory of the West Kazakhstan - 728,5 thousand persons, density - 2,7 persons on 1 square kilometer. The region is rich with mineral resources. Openly about thousand deposits of 50 kinds of ore and nonmetallic minerals: oil and gas, manganese, nickel, phosphorites, copper. The Tengizsky deposit is comparable to the largest deposits in the world. Manufacture of the oil and x-ray equipment, ferroalloys, mineral fertilizers is developed also. Foreign investments are actively involved in development and development of economy of region, a number of large joint ventures is created.
Now Kazakhstan 14 areas: Akmolinsky, Almaty, Aktyubinsk, East Kazakhstan, Atyrausky, Zhambylsky, West Kazakhstan, Karaganda, Kostanajsky, Kzylordinsky, Mangistausky, Pavlodar, North Kazakhstan, South Kazakhstan and two cities of republican value - Astana and Almaty.
