alma-ata

English Thesaurus

1. the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998 (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	city, metropolis, urban center,
definition	:	a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts (noun.location)

part meronym	:	kazak, kazakh, kazakhstan, kazakstan, republic of kazakhstan,
definition	:	a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991 (noun.location)