Kazakhstan Solo Female Travel Safety Tips and Advice

On this page you will find first-hand, unbiased, and real safety tips, advice and reviews from women traveling solo, submitted directly from their personal experiences in the country.

Their opinions are unfiltered and submitted independently as part of the Solo Female Travel Safety Index, a ranking of 210 countries and regions based on how safe they are for women traveling solo.

The safety scores range from 1 to 4 with 1 being the safest and 4 being the most dangerous for solo female travelers.

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Kazakhstan Country data

We have compiled a few data points below that can help you better understand Kazakhstan and have more context when thinking about travel safety.

Official country name: Republic of Kazakhstan.

Etymology: The name "Kazakh" may derive from the Turkic word "kaz" meaning "to wander," recalling the Kazakh's nomadic lifestyle; the Persian suffix "-stan" means "place of" or "country," so the word Kazakhstan literally means "Land of the Wanderers".

Capital: Nur-Sultan.

Independence / foundation: The Kazakh steppe was conquered by the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Kazakhstan became a Soviet Republic in 1925. During the 1950s and 1960s, the agricultural "Virgin Lands" program led to an influx of settlers (mostly ethnic Russians, but also other nationalities) and at the time of Kazakhstan’s independence in 1991, ethnic Kazakhs were a minority.

Population: 20 million.

Currency: Kazakhstani Tenge (KZT)
1 USD = 446 - 452 KZT
1 EUR = 481 - 493 KZT

Time zone: UTC+6

Languages spoken: Kazakh (official, Qazaq) 83% (understand spoken language) and trilingual (Kazakh, Russian, English) 22%; Russian (official, used in everyday business, designated the "language of interethnic communication") 94% (understand spoken language).

Religions: Muslim 70%, Christian 26% (mainly Russian Orthodox), other <1%, atheist 3%, unspecified <1%.

Climate: Continental, cold winters and hot summers, with arid and semiarid climate.

Real GDP (ppp – purchasing power parity): $512 billion.

Real GDP per capita (ppp): $26,100.

Main airports: Almaty International Airport, Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport, Aktau International Airport.

World heritage sites in Kazakhstan

There are over 1,100 world heritage sites spread across more than 165 countries. New ones are added every year, and some may be removed from the list for various reasons.

Number of UNESCO listed sites: 6.

Top world heritage sites:

- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi.
- Petroglyphs of the Archaeological Landscape of Tanbaly.
- Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor.
- Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan.
- Western Tien-Shan.
- Cold Winter Deserts of Turan.

Interesting facts about Kazakhstan

- Kazakhstan has a space launch facility. Baikonur Cosmodrome is the world’s busiest space launch facility. It serves the Russian, American, European and other national and commercial space programs.

- Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world and the 9th largest country in the world by total area. Despite being landlocked, Kazakhstan has a navy which is based on the Caspian Sea. The Caspian sea is also bordered by Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.

- The country is very rich in mineral resources. More than 99 elements of Mendeleyeev’s periodic table can be found in the Kazakhstan.

- Kazakhstan is believed to be the birthplace of apples. The city of Almaty, which means ‘father of apples’ in Kazakh, claims being the birthplace of the apple which was recently confirmed by DNA tests.

Further reading: N/A.

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About the Solo Female Travel Safety Index

Safety matters to solo female travelers, you told us so in our annual Solo Female Travel Survey, where year after year, women prove that this is their most important concern when traveling solo.

We wanted to do something about it, so we built these country-specific pages where you can find reviews and scores for 7 key variables affecting the safety of women traveling solo.

How to use the Safety Index

On this page, you will find the country score and the personal opinions on safety of other women traveling solo.

You can sort the comments by:

• The level of experience traveling solo of the reviewer (beginner = <5 trips solo, Intermediate = 5 to 10 trips solo, Experienced = >10 trips solo).
• The age of the traveler.
• Whether they are a visitor or local.
• The date they were posted.

The safety scores range from 1 to 4 with 1 being the safest and 4 being the most dangerous for solo female travelers. 

Thus, the lower the score, the safer the country.

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