Borat Would Know

Kazakhstan is:

• the ninth largest country in the world, about the same size as all of Western Europe
• possibly the place where humans first domesticated horses
• largely agricultural, thanks to a Khrushchev program called “Virgin Lands” that tried to turn it into the Soviets’ major source of grain
• the country where the Soviets launched their space shuttle and the Mir space station
• a former candidate to host the 2014 Olympics