KAZAKHSTAN
Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country by area, stretching from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Altai Mountains on the Chinese border in the east. It was a central part of the Soviet Union until independence in 1991 and contains the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s first and largest operational space launch facility, from which Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961.
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