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Kazakhstan ( " Qazaqstan ", " Kazakhstan "), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (" Qazaqstan Respwblïkas " " Respublika Kazakhstan "), is a transcontinental country in northern Central ___MASK70___ and Eastern Europe . Kazakhstan is the world ' s largest landlocked country , and the ninth largest in the world , with an area of . Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of Central ___MASK70___ economically , generating 60 % of the region ' s GDP , primarily through its oil / gas industry . It also has vast mineral resources . The Kazakhs ( also spelled Kazaks , Qazaqs , , ; the English name is transliterated from Russian ) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern ___MASK32___ Ural mountains and northern parts of Central ___MASK70___ ( largely Kazakhstan , but also found in parts of Uzbekistan , China , Russia and Mongolia ), the region also known as Eurasian sub - continent . Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465 , when several tribes under the rule of the sultans Zhanibek and Kerey departed from the Khanate of Abu ' l - Khayr Khan . Mongolia ( Mongolian : [" Monggol Ulus "] in Mongolian script ; [" Mongol Uls "] in Mongolian Cyrillic ) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East ___MASK70___ . Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia , and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state . It is sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north . While it does not share a border with Kazakhstan , Mongolia is separated from it by only . Ider River ( Mongolian :   , " lit . " youthful river "") is a river in the Khövsgöl and Zavkhan aimags in northwestern Mongolia and is , together with the Delgermörön river , one of the sources of the Selenge river . The source is in the Khangai range , the confluence with the Delgermörön is in Tömörbulag . The river is frozen 170 - 180 nights per year . There is a wooden bridge , which was built in 1940 , near Jargalant and a concrete bridge in Galt . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in ___MASK5___ . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . East ___MASK70___ is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent , which can be defined in either geographical or ethno - cultural terms . Geographically and geopolitically , it includes China , Hong Kong , and Macao ; Mongolia and Taiwan ; North and South Korea ; and Japan ; it covers about , or about 28 % of the Asian continent , about twice the area of Europe . Chuluut River ( Mongolian :   , stony river ) is a river flowing through the valleys of the Khangai Mountains in central Mongolia , and a tributary of the Ider River . It is 415 km long , the width at the mouth into the Ider river is 80 m , the maximum depth is 3 m . It is usually frozen from November to April . China , officially the People ' s Republic of China ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East ___MASK70___ . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of China , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . China is a great power and a major regional power within ___MASK70___ , and has been characterized as a potential superpower .