Definition of "Kazakstan"
Kazakstan
proper noun
Alternative form of Kazakhstan: A country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Kazakhstan. 1937 January 15, “Current Notes and Short Notices”, in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, volume XLIX, number 1, page 10:He rejects the Hemimerina but admits the Arixenina, and brings forward a new suborder, the Archidermaptera, for the fossil species Protodiplatys fortis, described by Martynov from the Jurassic deposits of southern Kazakstan, which has 4-5-segmented tarsi, apparently rudiments of venation in the elytra, and segmented cerci, like the larvae of Diplatys and the Karschiellinae. 1997 January, David M. Willford, A Brief History of the On-Site Inspection Agency, page 8:In a dramatic, secret operation in later 1994, the On-Site Inspection Agency took part in the transfer of weapons-grade materials from Kazakstan to the United States. The Kazakstan government agreed to transfer its highly enriched uranium to the U.S. for safekeeping, in exchange for an undisclosed amount of foreign aid from the United States. 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 25:The Daur minority is another Mongolian-speaking group, most of whom live near the town of Tacheng (Qochek), near the Kazakstan border.