Kazakhstan Flags

The national flag of the independent state of Kazakhstan contains a golden sun on it, with 32 rays emanating from the sun. The golden sun is positioned on top of a golden made steppe eagle. The two symbols are placed at the center of the sky-blue and a white background. On the top left corner of Kazakhstan's national flag is an ornamental pattern. The Kazakhstan flag is called the Kazakh flag. It was adopted in 1992 as a replacement for the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic flag.

The Kazakh flag has two main colors, blue and yellow. The blue background represents the ancient Russian art, tradition and cultural practices of the inhabitants of the region who were known as the Khanate people. Peace, culture and ethnic unity of the Khazarian nation is also represented by the blue background. The yellow sun is a symbol of all sources of life and the power to live. The rays emanating from the sun is a representation of the steppes of grain which, considered to be a symbol of abundance and prosperity.

The designer of Kazakhstan's flag was Shaken Onlasynovich Niyazbekov, an artist and designer who sent a proposal to design the nation's flag. He was chosen among 600 contestants who had applied for the project.

The current flag of Kazazhstan has undergone a series of transformations over the years. The first Soviet socialist flag, which was in use from 1937 to 1947 had a pure red background with a golden anchor. The second series of the Kazakhstan flag also used the Soviet flag with some variation. Later, from 1953 to 1991, the flag of Kazakhstan was redesigned to include sky blue stripes and then red stripes. In 1992, the government adopted Niyazbekov's design. It is the design used to date.

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Published on 2019-11-06


Capital	Astana
Languages	Kazakh (official, Qazaq) 74% (understand spoken language), Russian (official, used in everyday business, designated the "language of interethnic communication") 94.4% (understand spoken language) (2009 est.)
Ethnic Groups	Kazakh (Qazaq) 63.1%, Russian 23.7%, Uzbek 2.9%, Ukrainian 2.1%, Uighur 1.4%, Tatar 1.3%, German 1.1%, other 4.4% (2009 est.)
Religion	Muslim 70.2%, Christian 26.2% (mainly Russian Orthodox), other 0.2%, atheist 2.8%, unspecified 0.5% (2009 est.)
Government	Presidential republic
Independance	16 December 1991 (from the Soviet Union)
Area	2,724,900.00 km²
Water Area	25,200.00 km²
Land Area	2,699,700.00 km²
Population	18,360,353.00 Most of the country displays a low population density, particularly the interior; population clusters appear in urban agglomerations in the far northern and southern portions of the country
Location	Central Asia, northwest of China; a small portion west of the Ural (Zhayyq) River in easternmost Europe
No. Bordering Countries	5
Bordering Countries	China 1,765 km, Kyrgyzstan 1,212 km, Russia 7,644 km, Turkmenistan 413 km, Uzbekistan 2,330 km
GDP(PPP)	$469,000,000,000.00 (USD)
GDP (Per Capita)	$25,700.00 (USD)
Export Partners	Its major export partners are China, Russia, and France.
Export Commodities	Its main exports are oil natural gas, ferrous metals, and chemicals.
Import Partners	Its major import partners are Russia, China, and Germany.
Import Commodities	Its major imports include machinery and equipment, metal products, and foodstuffs.
Climate	Continental, cold winters and hot summers, arid and semiarid
Terrain	Vast flat steppe extending from the Volga in the west to the Altai Mountains in the east and from the plains of western Siberia in the north to oases and deserts of Central Asia in the south
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