KZ

Geography & Places abbreviation · Country Code

KZ
Stands forKazakhstan
CategoriesGeography & Places

KZ stands for Kazakhstan, a country code abbreviation.

World's largest landlocked country, with Astana as its capital (renamed from Nur-Sultan in 2022) and KAZ as its alpha-3 code. Russia leases the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the launch site of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, from Kazakhstan.

Example: Freight trains from China cross KZ on the way to Europe.

Usage notes

Kazakhstan is switching its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin script. The tenge trades as KZT. The language code for Kazakh is kk.

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