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Cities, Regions and Wildlife

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  1. Which city has been the capital of Kazakhstan since 1997?
  2. Which is the largest city of Kazakhstan, lying in the foothills of the Zailiysky Alatau?
  3. Which southern city, close to Uzbekistan, is the third largest in Kazakhstan?
  4. Which city in central Kazakhstan was founded around a large coal basin and is the heart of the country's coal and steel industry?
  5. Which city, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Caspian Sea, is the centre of Kazakhstan's oil industry?
  6. Which Caspian port city in Mangystau Region was built in the 1960s next to a uranium mine?
  7. Which city in southern Kazakhstan has the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi and is the capital of a region named after it?
  8. Which city in eastern Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River, is known for its zinc, lead and titanium industries?
  9. Which city on the Irtysh is associated with Abai and was the site of the Soviet nuclear test programme?
  10. Which region of Kazakhstan contains the Baikonur Cosmodrome?
  11. Which ancient city, near the Talas River in the south, celebrated its 2,000th anniversary in 2001?
  12. Which tower in Astana, 97 metres tall, symbolises the year 1997 and a legend of a tree that holds a golden egg?
  13. Which cathedral in Panfilov Park in Almaty, finished in 1907, is one of the tallest wooden buildings in the world and is said to have been built without nails?
  14. Which bird do Kazakh hunters, called berkutchi, train to hunt foxes and hares on the steppe?
  15. Which camel, found in the south and west of Kazakhstan, provides the milk used to make a fermented drink called shubat?
  16. Which lake in the Korgalzhyn reserve in central Kazakhstan is the northernmost breeding site of the pink flamingo?
  17. Which large reservoir on the Ili River north of Almaty, created in the 1970s, is a popular place for recreation and is known as the Kapchagay Sea?
  18. Which nature reserve, founded in 1926 in the western Tian Shan and known for its wild tulips, is the oldest in Kazakhstan?
  19. Which natural attraction in Altyn Emel National Park, a sand hill about 150 metres high, makes a humming sound when the sand slides down it?
  20. Which chain of three lakes in the Tian Shan, in the Almaty region, is called the Pearls of the Tian Shan?
  21. Which ski resort lies in the mountains above Almaty, close to Medeu?
  22. Which north-eastern city, on the Irtysh River, is known for its aluminium refinery and its power stations on coal?
  23. Which region on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea contains the Ustyurt Plateau and the chalk cliffs of Bozzhyra?
  24. Which city in central Kazakhstan, in the Ulytau region, is the centre of the country's copper mining?
  25. Which city on the Ural River, in the north-west of Kazakhstan, lies in the region of West Kazakhstan?

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