In the thesis, I present the country of Kazakhstan and its new capital city, make a short theoretical introduction into the functions and relocations of the capital cities, and analyze the geographical aspects of the relocation of the capital city of Kazakhstan. With the help of a scientific apparatus, I extract five major geo-environmental aspects and try to address them critically. In conclusion, I confirm the hypothesis that the relocation of the capital was largely due to the growing nationalist tendencies of the Kazakh population and in general consolidation of power in the north of Kazakhstan, I also partially confirmed the second part of the hypothesis about the relocation due to the geostrategic advantages of the capital city located in the center of the country.
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