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.
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.