Ninth biggest country on earth and most people couldn't point to it on a map to save their life.
Fun fact: Every crewed Russian space mission since 1961 has launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.
You can drive across the whole thing in an hour, yet it runs better than countries fifty times bigger.
Fun fact: Its total land area has grown by roughly 25 percent since independence through ongoing coastal reclamation.