The Astana Metro is a planned (under construction) light rail

Light rail

Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...

 rapid transit system located in Astana

Astana

Astana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010...

, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

, which is the capital of the country with a population of about 750,000. The construction of the system should be finished roughly about the same time as the Almaty Metro

Almaty Metro

Almaty Metro is a rapid transit system currently under construction in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The first branch of the system is currently opened on 1 December 2011...

will be, which is estimated at 2010. When one travels to these two cities of Kazakhstan, one can see signs and buildings with commissions and offices labelled by Almaty Metro or Astana Metro.

This is also part of Nazarbayev's Kazakhstan 2030 economic plan to make Kazakhstan a powerful economic land and country. Astana has been undergoing much construction since the capital change in 1997.

Currently, there is no operating metro system in the whole country.