{"id":1450,"date":"2026-12-16T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-12-16T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:39:44","slug":"republic-of-kazakhstan-celebrates-its-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"Republic of Kazakhstan Celebrates Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8670\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8670\" class=\"wp-image-8670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Kazakhstan.gif\" alt=\"Kazakhstan\" width=\"210\" height=\"104\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Kazakhstan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Republic of Kazakhstan celebrates Independence Day<\/strong>. In 1991 it broke away from the Soviet Union. According to the <em>CIA World Factbook<\/em>, Kazakhstan is about four times the size of Texas. Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world. About 16 million inhabitants live in this arid country. Although Almaty is the biggest city, Astana is the capital. Kazakhstan exports oil and wheat. Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in Kazakhstan\u2019s desert steppe, is the world\u2019s oldest and largest space launch site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republic of Kazakhstan celebrates Independence Day. In 1991 it broke away from the Soviet Union. According to the CIA World Factbook, Kazakhstan is about four times the size of Texas. Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world. About 16 million inhabitants live in this arid country. Although Almaty is the biggest city, Astana <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1450' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4434,4525,4524,74,253,4523],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4434","tag-astana","tag-baikonur-cosmodrome","tag-december-16","tag-independence-day","tag-republic-of-kazakhstan","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30388,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/30388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}