Myth examined
“Kazakhstan is a Middle Eastern or Arab country”
False. Kazakhstan is a Central Asian country classified by the United Nations in the Central Asia region. It is not geographically, linguistically, or institutionally part of the Middle East or the Arab world. The Kazakh language is Turkic, not Arabic. Kazakhstan's Muslim majority and geographic proximity to Muslim-majority regions do not make it part of the Arab world.
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