Kazakh is the language spoken in Zhanaozen and western Kazakhstan.

In turn the Cumans controlled western Kazakhstan roughly from the 1100s until the 1220s.

For five months, hundreds of workers from the oil fields of western Kazakhstan have been on strike demanding better pay and working conditions.

It roughly corresponded to most of present-day western Kazakhstan.

Kaztransoil will use the proceeds for a pipeline in western Kazakhstan.

Initially, most were concentrated in Almaty, but more are spreading out to southern and western Kazakhstan as well.

Riots in western Kazakhstan that have killed at least 14 people are a potential game changer for the former Soviet state.

Rioting in western Kazakhstan has spread to a second town, posing a serious challenge to the authorities.

I'm anxious to get to either western Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.

Planners theorised about a possible advance to western Kazakhstan to secure the eastern frontiers.