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Astana is renamed Nur Sultan after former President Nur Sultan Nazarbayev in:

     (A) 2018

     (B) 2020

     (C) 2019

     (D) None of these

On 16 July 1999, Astana was awarded the medal and title of the City of Peace by UNESCO. In March 2019, the Kazakhstani government renamed the city Nur-Sultan to honour the country’s outgoing long-term authoritarian president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

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