Asian Studies ( countries in Central Asian and Siberia)

2. Siberia
Russia
Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyzstan
Afghanistan

3. (l) Understand the significance of the landlocked locations of Central
Asia
(lll) Describe and differentiate various Central Asian and Siberian
religious traditions
(ll) Develop an understanding of the land and people in Central Asia and
Siberia

5. Place Area (km ) Population (2020)
Russian Siberia
(Vladivostok)
13, 000, 000 17, 003, 927
Kazakhstan
(Astana)
2, 724, 900 18, 776, 707
Uzbekistan
(Tashkent)
447, 400 33, 469, 203
Kyrgyzstan
(Bishkek)
199, 900 6, 524, 195
Tajikistan
(Dushanbe)
141, 400 9, 537, 645
Turkmenistan
(Ashgabat)
488, 099 6, 031, 200
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6. Russia is more of an Asian country, due to the Siberian territory, which
makes up 77% of Russia.
Land
Siberia’s name comes from the Tartar word for “sleeping land”.

7. Serbia is a landlocked region.

8. Siberia is one of the coldest regions in Russia with an
average daily high temperature of only 5 degrees.
Stroganina is a raw fish dish of the indigenous people of northern
Arctic Siberia made from raw, thin, long-sliced frozen fish. It is a
popular dish with native Siberians.
Deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas,
diamonds, iron ore, and gold.

9. The current metro area population of
Novosibirsk in 2022 is 1, 686, 000.
Baraba Tatar

12. Four of the world’s longest rivers intersect the
vast region-

13. People
The 30 or so indigenous Siberian ethnic groups make up only about 4 percent of the population.
Russians and Ukrainians Tatars
Germans Buryats

14. Siberian Culture
Majority of the Buryats live in and around Ulan-Ude.
The Buryats still preserve their shamanism religion and many practice Buddhism.

16. Eskimo-Aleut language
Mongolic language
Paleosiberian language
Russian dialect
Turkic language
Tungusic language
Uralic language
Samoyedic language
Yeniseian language

18. By the end of the 17th century, Russia had colonized Siberia and all
the way to the Pacific Ocean.
During the days of the Russian Czars, many communists were
exiled to Siberia (including Lenin, Stalin and others
Before, no religion was tolerated, but the open economy brought
a religious revival with many churches being built, the largest
being the Orthodox Russia denomination.

20. Interesting Facts About Central Asia

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31. He was lame, but a fierce conqueror,
and he was known locally as Timur
the Great, and his empire was the
Timurid Empire.

33. Starting from his capital in Samarkand in Uzbekistan, he subdued the neighboring tribes and
also invaded Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Georgia, the gates of Russia, Afghanistan, and India

35. Today he is a National Hero in
Uzbekistan, and his tomb in
Samarkand is projected by a jade slab
with the words, “ Were I live today
mankind would tremble”

36. Russian Conquest