Kazakhstan sits on the United Nations list of 32 Landlocked Developing Countries

Background

The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States maintains a list of Landlocked Developing Countries. The list contains 32 countries. Kazakhstan appears on it as entry number 12. Countries marked with an asterisk on the list are also Least Developed Countries, and Kazakhstan carries no such mark. Although Kazakhstan has a long frontage on the Caspian Sea, the Caspian is an enclosed body of water, so the country has no coast on an open ocean.