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Astana has been renamed several times
The Kazakh capital has carried at least four names since the Soviet period alone Founded as a fortress in the 1830s, it became Akmolinsk, then Tselinograd, then Akmola. It was renamed Astana in 1998 when it became the capital, changed to Nur-Sultan in 2019, and reverted to Astana in 2022. It is one of the coldest capital cities anywhere, with winter temperatures far below freezing. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Astana has been renamed several times: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The Kazakh capital has carried at least four names since the Soviet period alone. The figure is taken from United Nations, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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