This vast Central Asian nation of 15.3 million also has coal, gold and uranium.
The central Asian country recently had to bail out its biggest banks - sounds familiar.
Or maybe you would choose Pakistan, Afghanistan or another Central Asian state as the next target?
There are also big differences in the way the Central Asian countries perceive the outside world.
With so much to be gained by working together, why are Central Asian countries so divided?
If this happens, it would make him the first post-Soviet Central Asian president to leave voluntarily.
Scheduled to be completed by 2013, Nabucco would transport Azerbaijani and Central Asian gas to Europe.
Compared with his Central Asian empire-building predecessor, Genghis Khan, Temur emerges as not without virtues.
Today's Central Asian states were Soviet creations which, before 1991, had no history as separate, independent countries.
Sports officials in the Central Asian country say that the traditional dish may help the athletes' performance.
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The central Asian states of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan are still run by their former Soviet bosses.
Russia and the Central Asian republics have become the main conduit for American troops and their supplies.
Indeed, Central Asian governments often create a choke-hold on economies, preventing entrepreneurship that can lead to wealth creation.
"The government was very upset, no humor, " says Folke von Knobloch of Central Asian Tourism, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
That puts the Central Asian economy in a far better position than some of its less wealthy neighbours.
Clinton Tuesday at a Central Asian Conference on women in politics at her first stop in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Iran is even facing unlikely competition from Afghanistan as an export route for Central Asian oil and gas.
Moreover, the new rail route cuts the distance for goods travelling from Europe to some Central Asian destinations.
The original supply deal for the line was for each Central Asian state to contribute to supplies to China.
Routing the gas through Iran would be avoided, and Central Asian republics wouldn't have to ship through Russian pipelines.
Threats to the two biggest countries historically came from their Central Asian hinterlands.
Top of the agenda was a meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, a group that includes Central Asian nations.
The sheer scope and speed of China's Central Asian coup caught many off guard, not least its Western rivals.
As far as is known, Merah made no reference to any central Asian group during his standoff with authorities.
The borders of today's Central Asian republics were drawn in the 1920s, with political and strategic considerations in mind.
Besides exposure to the Turkish market, it also has operations in Kazakhstan and the Ukraine among other Central Asian countries.
For the first time too, the authorities in this small Central Asian country kept order by firing into a crowd.
General David Petraeus, head of America's Central Command, says that Russia and its Central Asian neighbours will provide other routes.
You could avoid routing the gas through Iran, and free Central Asian republics from having to ship through Russian pipelines.
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