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Qazaqstan

Qazaqstan is the alternative form of Kazakhstan.

Meaning of Kazakhstan

Proper noun

Kazakhstan

  1. A country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan. Capital: Astana.
    • At a signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on May 29, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ratified the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into existence. An EEU modeled on the European Union was first mooted back in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, but took off only...2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023

Origin of Qazaqstan

Originally an alternative transliteration of Russian Казакста́н (Kazakstán), Казахста́н (Kazaxstán); now from Kazakh Qazaqstan (Latin spelling of Қазақстан). By surface analysis, Qazaq + -stan.

Words formed from Qazaqstan

Questions about Qazaqstan

What is Qazaqstan the alternative form of?
Qazaqstan is the alternative form of Kazakhstan.

Words near Qazaqstan in the dictionary

  1. qaymaqams
  2. Qazakh
  3. Qazan
  4. Qazaq
  5. Qazaqs
  6. Qazaqstan
  7. Qazaqstani
  8. Qazaqstanis
  9. Qazax
  10. qazf
  11. Qazhafi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Qazaqstan (page history and authors); Kazakhstan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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