Kazakhstan

The country calling code for Kazakhstan is +76, +77. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Kazakhstan number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Kazakhstan is assigned KZ as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and KAZ as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Kazakhstan is .kz, .қаз. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Kazakhstan is the Kazakhstani tenge, with the ISO 4217 code KZT and the symbol ₸. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Kazakhstan are quoted in KZT. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Kazakhstan is +05:00, currently UTC+05:00. This country spans multiple time zones. The clock above shows the primary time zone, so local time elsewhere in Kazakhstan may differ. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Kazakhstan is Nur-Sultan. Kazakhstan sits in Asia, specifically the Central Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 48.00000000, 68.00000000. Traffic in Kazakhstan drives on the right. Languages recorded for Kazakhstan: Kazakh, Russian.

Kazakhstan shares a land border with 5 countries: China, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.