Kazakhstan is in Central Asia, just south of Russia and west of China, with a small part extending into Eastern Europe.

Quick map answer

If you look at a world map:

  • Find Russia (the huge country across northern Eurasia).
  • Kazakhstan is directly beneath Russia’s southern border.
  • To its east is China.
  • To its west is the Caspian Sea.
  • To the south are the other “-stan” countries: Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan.

So on a typical classroom map, your eyes go to the middle of the Eurasian landmass: Kazakhstan is that large, roughly rectangular country between Russia above and the line of other “-stans” below.

A bit more detail

  • It’s the world’s largest landlocked country and the ninth-largest country overall, spanning about 2.7 million square kilometers.
  • It stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Altai Mountains toward China in the east.
  • Its central coordinates are roughly 48°N, 66–68°E on a globe.

If you imagine Europe on the left of the map and East Asia (China/Japan) on the right, Kazakhstan sits in the broad interior between them, just below Russia.

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