Country snapshot : Kazakhstan
 

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A few years ago, most people were scarcely aware its existence. No more. Borat has managed to move Kazakhstan into our collective consciousness.

The country in the world?s ninth largest and covers an area larger than all of the countries in Western Europe combined, and yet has a population of only about 15.2 million.

It is the world?s largest landlocked country, and is bordered by Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China.

According to www.internetworldstats.com, 1,247,000 people, or 8.2% of the population, are already online. Usage growth between 2000-2007 was an impressive 1,681%, with plenty of room of continued strong growth in this emerging market.

In tandem with the above, credit card ownership is set to dramatically increase in the next few years, with several major banks aggressively promoting the virtues of plastic to this virgin market.

As with so many developing countries, the mobile cell phone network is vastly superior to its fixed-line cousin.

So far, we have paid $2,637.49 to webmasters who have sold passwords to surfers from there, and we expect to see this figure rise dramatically as the market matures.

Whilst not the official state language of Kazakh, Russian is more widely understood there than English, which is why we serve a Russian call-to-action to surfers there who wish to pay for web-content by means of their phone.

As some markets in the developed world are beginning to show signs of having reached critical mass, countries like Kazakhstan represent an enormous opportunity for webmasters to start making some serious money from the hot new Asian growth markets.

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Hi Five.....

Jagshemashhhhhhhh!

borat for president!°

Kazahstan even officially protested against Borat the movie, the only problem of theirs is that there are no major oil pipes going over their territory.

I mean if a British comedian shoots in Romania a totally degrading and fabulated feature on a third country, making every other dumbass that failed from Geography in school think what he thinks, it's not entirely right.

I hope the producers enjoy the cash.

You can see its effect in the totally misguided replies almost every Kazakhstan thread gets here.

this kid on Kazakh Idol really rocks:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=e6kRD0_qTbc

From what I understand, after initially trying to ban the movie, they then actually embraced it and saw the funny side.

Pre-Borat, many in the west had not even heard of the place...

How can someone in the civilised world not even heard ebout the place?

Because we're Americans. If it's not about Britney, we don't give a shit.

BORAT BONUS!

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To the first webmaster to sell a password from there see here :thumbsup

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Claimed, well done edokun:winkwink:

I was born in Kazakhstan and I love Borat!
Before borat, when I would tell people where I am from they would look confused and ask where it was? Now, nobody believes me lol

Kazakhstan also is home to Russia's space program.

Hint: Get google earth open and look around, there's abandoned shuttles lying around in the middle of the desert.
Amazing.

:1orglaugh

it is great country:thumbsup

Bajkonur you mean? sure it was - Gagarin launched off from there in 61...

So borat was a positive thing?

I very much love a'my country of Kazakhstan. It is number 4 exporter of potasium in all of world. Nice.

Got coordinates?

I want to see some potassium mining!

I need to go there sometime ;)

Borat fucked more America then Kazhastan.I dont know whey they didnt allow it there.