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The AES Corporation is an American utility and power generation company. It owns and operates power plants, which it uses to generate and sell electricity to end users and intermediaries like utilities and industrial facilities. AES is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and is one of the world's leading power companies, generating and ...
Astana, [a] previously known as Akmolinsk, Tselinograd, Akmola, and most recently Nur-Sultan, [15] is the capital city of Kazakhstan . The city lies on the banks of the Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, though administered as a city with special status separately from the rest of the region.
Kazakhstan, [b] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, [c] is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe. [d] It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, with a coastline along the Caspian Sea.
Kazakhstan has oil, gas, coal and uranium reserves. Kazakhstan is a leading energy producer in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It is a major producer of oil, gas, and coal, as well as being the largest producer and exporter of uranium ore in the world. [1] Kazakhstan's oil and gas industry has been intensively developing after ...
History of Astana. Astana is the capital of Kazakhstan. Founded as Akmoly, it was once the seat of an okrug of the Russian Empire from 1830, it was granted town status and the name was modified to Akmolinsk in 1832. Although damaged during revolts in 1838, Akmolinsk continued to be a center of Russian colonial administration and to grow over ...
Kazakhstan's modernization program and innovative development path are expected to accelerate the country's urbanization processes resulting in increased share of urban population from 53% to 70% by 2030. The following is a list of cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants in Kazakhstan. The names of many places have been changed during the 20th ...
AIP Kazakhstan [5] Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport [a] ( IATA: NQZ, ICAO: UACC ), alternatively referred by its previous name as Astana International Airport until 2017 (or simply Astana Airport ), is the international airport serving Astana, Kazakhstan, the capital and second most populous city in the country.
The region was created by the merger of two Soviet-era Kazakhstan oblasts: the old Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya (East Kazakhstan) Oblast and Semipalatinsk Oblast. On 17 March 2022, it was announced that East Kazakhstan region would be divided, creating the Abai Region. This came into force on 8 June 2022, with eight districts of East Kazakhstan ...