Organised by the Greater Caspian Association

About the forum

Caspian Week is where officials, investors, companies and universities from the Greater Caspian Region meet partners from the rest of the world.

Our mission

Our mission is to help unlock the human and economic potential of the Greater Caspian Region and improve its environment.

We work to develop the Greater Caspian Region and to show its strengths to the world.
Each event brings people from the region together with partners from beyond it, so ideas, investment and projects move both ways.

Eighteen countries from the Black Sea through the South Caucasus to Central Asia.

Central Asia: Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Eastern Europe: Belarus
Bulgaria
Moldova
Romania
RussiaCaspian region
Ukraine
Southern Asia: Afghanistan
Iran
Pakistan
Western Asia: Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Türkiye

countries

680M+

people

$12.8T

combined GDP (PPP)

10M km²

of territory

Abroad, the region is mostly known for oil and gas. Here are a few facts about its culture, its economy and the way people there do business.

40 years
UNESCO’s General Conference had not met outside Paris for 40 years before Samarkand hosted it in 2025.
1 in 6
barrels of crude oil the EU imported in 2025 came from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
“A cup of tea”
in Tajikistan often turns out to be a full dinner.
39%
of the world’s uranium was mined in Kazakhstan in 2024, more than in any other country.
A meal in a yurt
is part of building a business relationship in Kyrgyzstan.
Nowruz,
the spring new year, is shared UNESCO heritage of ten of the region’s countries.