I received a card from a new country in my collection of stamped and mailed postcards. It is from Kazakhstan and is the 209th . It was sent by Jo who lives in Almaty. Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It is the 9th largest country in the world as well as the largest landlocked country. It borders Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China. Kazakhstan became independent on Dec 16, 1991, the last Soviet republic to do so. Its capital is Astana, but the largest city is Almaty.
The card shows Ustyurt, a desert plateau that is half in Kazakhstan and half in Uzbekistan. It is roughly 200,000 sq km with an average elevation of 150 meters. The stamp that Jo used is from 1993 and features President Nasarbajew.
The second card for today is from Germany. It was sent by Steff, a Postcrosser. It shows a building in the town of Bad Schwalbach, which is about 20 km NW of Wiesbaden. It is between 289 and 465 m above sea level in the Taunus mountain range.
Steff used 2 stamps, the one on the left, I have written about before and the one on the right, was issued this year, 2008. 
It shows a painting by Carl Spitzweg,1808-1885. He was a German painter and poet.
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Hi Glenn
im glad to see that you had received the Kazakhstan card! Hopefully, sooner or later, we'll get to see the images as well..though if its from Ustyurt, i wonder if its maybe the same as the one i have...i definitely love that one...but i think that from all the Kazakhstan cards ive seen from Jo..they are all just AMAZING!!
good luck with the rest of the collection :)
regards
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