According to British media reports, Kazakhstan's capital was once again listed in the Guinness World Record, becoming the record holder of the number of city renames.
in the "Guess which city has the most rename records?" series, the city has been renamed five times in 60 years.
It is worth noting that this city was previously listed in the Guinness World Record for the number of changes, and its old name was restored on September 17, and its records were refreshed again.
Guinness World Records website says that Astana became the capital of Kazakhstan in 1997, but was originally called Akmora.
has been renamed five times within sixty years:
From 1961 to 1991, the city was called Chelinograd. It means "the city of virgin land" because it was one of the centers of the Soviet unused land movement and agricultural expansion plans. Before 1961 it was called Akmolinsk .
When Kazakhstan gained independence in 1991, the city was named Akmora. In 1997, the then President of Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev, moved the capital from Almaty to Akmora, and declared Akmora the "permanent capital" of Kazakhstan.
On May 6, 1998, Nazarbayev changed Akmora to Astana. "Astana" means "capital" in Kazakh .
On March 20, 2019, Kazakhstan Parliament passed a constitutional amendment, renamed the capital Astana to Nur Sultan in order to pay tribute to the first President Nazarbayev, who had just stepped down as president at the time.
In September 2022, according to the decree of President Tokayev , the city restored its original name - Astana.
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