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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's best placing is 9th of 194 for land area.

Best placing: #9Land area
Top 10 placings: 1 / 16
Population: 20.8 million
Land area: 2.7 million km²

Every ranking

Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Kazakhstan is.

Land area

#9 of 194

2,699,700 km² of land

3rd in Asia · World Bank · 2023

Land area per person

#11 of 194

0.130 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Railways per person

#12 of 134

798.13 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2021

Railways

#17 of 135

16,636 km of railway

4th in Asia · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2021

Airports

#38 of 193

132 airports

7th in Asia · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

GDP

#47 of 182

306,239,209,650 US$ (current prices)

17th in Asia · World Bank · 2025

Population

#64 of 195

20,843,754 people

24th in Asia · World Bank · 2025

GDP per person

#64 of 182

14,692 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Forest

#83 of 194

35,424 km² of forest

21st in Asia · World Bank · 2023

Airports per person

#93 of 192

6.33 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Railways by area

#78 of 133

6.16 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2021

Forest per person

#116 of 194

0.0017 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Rainfall

#157 of 179

250 mm of precipitation per year

31st in Asia · World Bank · 2022

Forest by area

#177 of 194

1.3 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Airports by area

#181 of 191

0.49 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Population by area

#184 of 194

7.72 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

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