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Kazakhstan, located in Asia, is the ninth largest country in the world at 2,700,000 square kilometers. Its population of about 20 million is made up of approximately 70% Muslim and 20% Christian 2% non believer and less than 1% Jewish. It is at the western doorstep of China and a prime location for the placement of the BRI which is the proposed future trade route across Asia between China and Europe. The Jewish presence there since 2000 has been increasing in an almost facilitated pattern. This is from 2014:
> Today, Kazakhstan has a community of 3,300 Jews. Almaty is the main Jewish center in Kazakhstan, but the country boasts of more than 20 Jewish organizations-- including the Mitzvah Association, Chabad Lubavitch, the Joint Distribution Committee and Jewish Agency for Israel--spread across the nation's important cities like Astana and Karaganda. In 1999, all of Kazakhstan's Jewish communities were brought together under the All-Kazakhstan Jewish Congress. The country's first synagogue was opened in 2001 by Chabad Lubavitch. The Kazakh government is dedicated to protecting and boosting the Jewish community in Kazakhstan. The government has donated land and buildings to construct new synagogues and welcomed eight foreign rabbis and missionaries recently. (Kazakhstan has a small but thriving Jewish community from web archive.org)