Once part of the USSR........now it is its own country...........if u watch Dr. Strange......................Stephen, from Philly, PA.......legendary Batman........goes to a place in more or less Central Asia...........from the looks of the trailer....................East of the Middle East.........but West of the Orient............................where tons of cultures mix together.....it is common in many of those countries to see Muslim temples, Buddhist temples, etc...............

Kazakhstan

Country in Central Asia

Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country and former Soviet republic, extends from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Altai Mountains at its eastern border with China and Russia. Its largest metropolis, Almaty, is a long-standing trading hub whose landmarks include Ascension Cathedral, a tsarist-era Russian Orthodox church, and the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan, displaying thousands of Kazakh artifacts.

Capital: Astana

Currency: Kazakhstani tenge

President: Nursultan Nazarbayev

Population: 17.04 million (2013) World Bank

Official languages: Kazakh, Russian

Points of interest

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Ascension Cathedral, Almaty

Bayterek Tower

Palace of Peace and Reconciliation

Medeu

Central State Museum...

Destinations

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Almaty

Astana

Atyrau

Turkistan

Oskemen