#Turkestan region founded, Kazakh President’s Decree
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The Head of State noted that Shymkent ranks now among the cities with the population over one million along with Astana and Almaty.
"According to Article 1, Paragraph 3 of the Law of Kazakhstan “On administrative - territorial division of the Republic of Kazakhstan” Shymkent gained the status of the city of national significance. This administrative unit will be the seventeenth region of Kazakhstan. it’s regional centre is Turkestan, the heart of political and spiritual life of the Kazakh khanate and entire Turkic world," the President said.
