Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in Central Asia, while Outer Mongolia is the largest landlocked country in East Asia, although both countries have magnificent naval fleets, but there has never been an outlet to the sea, from the largest version on the map of the two countries seem to be connected together, because in Kazakhstan and Outer Mongolia there is actually a dividing line in the northern tip of China's Xinjiang, precisely because this dividing line connects China, Russia, Outer Mongolia, The four countries of Kazakhstan were separated, and it is said that this line was drawn by a master of the Soviet Union for a long time.
Kazakhstan is geographically located in the landlocked region of Central Asia, is the largest landlocked country on the planet, the western region is close to the Caspian Sea, the eastern territory borders on China's Xinjiang, and the rest of the northern border is close to Russia, the border line and the part directly bordering Russia is more than 7,500 kilometers, the total area of this country is more than 2.72 million square kilometers, which is the second largest country left after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Outer Mongolia was once part of China during the Qing Dynasty and the Beiyang government, and later held a referendum on independence under the control of the Soviets, Outer Mongolia is the largest landlocked country in East Asia, this country once created a joke, that is, hundreds of millions of dollars will be allocated every year to maintain naval military spending, the question is where is there any sea in Outer Mongolia, although Kazakhstan is a landlocked country, but the western territory has a sea that is not an ocean "Caspian Sea".
Kazakhstan and Outer Mongolia belong to Asia in the division of the world's continents, one is an East Asian country, the other is a Central Asian country, one belongs to the white race and is closer to the Middle East, and the other belongs to the yellow race, which is the same language as China in history.
If you don't look carefully at the map, you will find that the two countries seem to have part of the land bordering, but when you zoom in to the maximum extent, you will find that there is actually no border, this illusion is like looking at the Tumen River estuary in the northeast of Jilin Province in northeast China.
Kazakhstan was once a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty in history, and the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty once submitted to the Qing Dynasty, and when he saw the powerful Junggar Empire being destroyed, he had chosen to surrender obediently, so now Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan actually belonged to China at that time, but later in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, it was cut off by the Russians, and the part of the border between Hamon and Mongolia was also artificially damaged.
In the 17th century, China was strong, so Central Asia obeyed the orders of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, when Qianlong's order here was to let the Kazakhs and Outer Mongolians in Central Asia communicate with each other, and the economic and cultural exchanges between the two places were quite close at that time, and the Kazakhs were actually a branch of Genghis Khan Mongols, so although the languages of the two sides were different, they were still relatively close in cultural blood.
By the middle of the 19th century, the three major khanates of Central Asia, the Bukhara, the Khiva, and the Kokand Khanate, were all invaded by Tsarist Russia, where Tsarist Russia supported the establishment of Turkestan and the Central Asian steppe governorates.
After the Soviet era, the Turkestan Governorate was renamed the current Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other five regions, and the original Central Asian steppe Governorate was handed over to the Kazakhs to establish the Democratic Republic of Kazakhstan.
At that time, Stalin's advisers in the Soviet Union said that Kazakhstan and Outer Mongolia must not be connected, but in order to follow the power of the union republics, they divided the land on the border between Kazakhstan and Outer Mongolia into Russia, and gave Kazakhstan a large area of land in the northwest as compensation, and since then Kazakhstan has ended the history of bordering Outer Mongolia, and the two sides are only 38 kilometers apart, but why would the Soviet masters at that time prefer to sacrifice more land than let Kazakhstan and Outer Mongolia border together?
In fact, the main reason is because of fear, the Soviet Union has always had a terrible dream of Mongol domination of the yellow race in their hearts, so they divided the former Mongol territory and the country with Mongol blood into pieces, in order to prevent the Mongolian of Genghis Khan's era from coming back one day, it would be terrible.
It is already obvious that the emphasized Turkestan Governorate is divided into five, but the Kazakh region is not easy to split, because they are all Kazakhs, it is really difficult to mix sand, and the Kazakhs are very close to Outer Mongolia in blood, and the two sides have been in contact for hundreds of years.
So on the surface, it seems that a large amount of land is sacrificed in exchange for a little bit of land bordering Outer Mongolia, but in fact, it directly cuts off the connection between Outer Mongolia and Kazakhstan, and the most important thing is that the Soviet Union's plan to mix sand succeeds.
Because Kazakhstan has been an important commercial town since ancient times at the junction with Outer Mongolia, where hundreds of thousands of people are concentrated, which is quite important, it is slowly integrated into Russia after being divided into Russia, losing enough cultural centripetal force, and a large area of land is included in the territory of Kazakhstan It seems that the land area suffers a lot, but in fact, there is a large Russian population in that part of the region.
This move of the Soviet Union was to forcibly join a large number of ethnic Russians into the state of Kazakhstan, which invisibly changed the status of a single ethnic state in which the Kazakhs occupied the status of the main ethnic group.
In history, the Soviet Union used this trick very well, and neither Outer Mongolia nor Kazakhstan saw it at that time, especially Kazakhstan was still complacent after the collapse of the Soviet Union, because it got such a large piece of land. But in fact, it has lost a better opportunity to develop towards the East, even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan today can only rely on people, this person is Russia in the north, the strategy set up in the Soviet era to balance the East, and the containment of China is also playing a role.