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Kazakstan
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Total population was estimated in 1994 at 17,268,000, making Kazakstan
the fourth most populous former Soviet republic. As of 1990, 57 percent of
the country's residents lived in cities. Because much of the land is too
dry to be more than marginally habitable, overall population density is a
very low 6.2 persons per square kilometer. Large portions of the republic,
especially in the south and west, have a population density of less than
one person per square kilometer. In 1989 some 1.4 million Kazaks lived
outside Kazakstan, nearly all in the Russian and Uzbek republics. At that
time, an estimated 1 million Kazaks lived in China, and a sizeable but
uncounted Kazak population resided in Mongolia.
Data as of March 1996
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