Astana

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capital city city

Astana is the planned, modernist capital city of Kazakhstan, known for its futuristic architecture and rapid development since the late 20th century.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form As subject As object
Nur-Sultan 0 3

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf capital city →
city →
administrativeStatus city of republican significance →
callingCode +7 →
capitalMovedFrom Almaty →
capitalOf Kazakhstan →
climateClassification cold semi-arid climate →
climateCode BSk →
country Kazakhstan →
currency Kazakhstani tenge →
dateRenamedBackToAstana 2022-09-17 →
dateRenamedToNurSultan 2019-03-23 →
distanceFromAlmaty_km approximately 1200 →
elevationAboveSeaLevel_m 347 →
formerName Akmola →
Akmolinsk →
Astana self-linksurface differs →
surface form: Nur-Sultan

Tselinograd →
foundingDateAsFortress 1830 →
hasFootballClub FC Astana →
hasIceHockeyClub Barys Astana →
hasLandmark Ak Orda Presidential Palace →
Astana Opera →
Bayterek Tower →
Expo 2017 sphere (Nur Alem) →
Hazrat Sultan Mosque →
Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center →
Palace of Peace and Reconciliation →
hasMayorTitle akim →
hasUniversity Nazarbayev University →
hostedEvent Expo 2017 →
isLargestCityOf Akmola Region (de facto, though administratively separate) →
isModernistCity true →
isPlannedCity true →
knownFor futuristic architecture →
rapid urban development →
locatedIn Central Asia →
Kazakhstan →
locatedInTimeZone UTC+5 →
locatedOnRiver Ishim River →
mainAirport Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport →
officialLanguage Kazakh →
Russian →
populationEstimate_2023 about 1,300,000 →
renamedFrom Astana self-linksurface differs →
surface form: Nur-Sultan
renamedTo Astana self-linksurface differs →
surface form: Nur-Sultan
statusAsCapitalFrom 1997 →
urbanPlanningStyle planned city with modernist and high-tech architecture →
vehicleRegistrationCode Z →

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kazakhstan → capital → Astana →
Almaty → capitalMovedTo → Astana →
Astana → formerName → Astana self-linksurface differs →
this entity surface form: Nur-Sultan
Astana → renamedFrom → Astana self-linksurface differs →
this entity surface form: Nur-Sultan
Astana → renamedTo → Astana self-linksurface differs →
this entity surface form: Nur-Sultan