The Tian Shen mountains of Kazakhstan are one of the most remote mountain ranges in central Asia

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Kazakhstan is a huge country the size of Western Europe, which has vast mineral resources and enormous economic potential it also contains a The varied landscape that stretches from the mountainous, heavily populated regions of the east to the sparsely populated, energy-rich lowlands in the west, and from the industrialised north, with its Siberian climate and terrain, through to the arid empty steppes of the center and the fertile south. Kazakhstan was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence following the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 within the country lies the Tian Shan mountain range in the border region of Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan This photograph shows a nomad camp in The Tian Shen mountains of Kazakhstan one of the most remote mountain ranges in central Asia it is an area of wooded valleys fast flowing rivers and high snow covered peaks providing rich summer pasture which is used by the semi nomadic people who live in these felt yurts

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