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Kazakhstan // Kyrgyzstan // Tajikistan // Turkmenistan // Uzbekistan

Central Asia covers a key territory of the Asian part of the planet. Its area makes up more than 1.295 million square km, a larger area than Germany, France and Great Britain in total. Central Asian territory spreads from the Caspian Sea on the west to the borders with China in the East, and from the Aral-Irtysh watershed on the north to the border with Iran and Afghanistan in the south. Its western and northern regions are represented by vast valleys, deserts and dry steppes surrounded by the Pamir-Alay and Tian-Shan mountain ranges on the east, some of whose peaks are the highest in our country and reach 7.5 kilometers above sea level.

Still, Central Asia is far from being just a geographical definition. Primarily, it is a large historical and cultural region, having a twenty five century-long history, with a specifically ordered historical and cultural community different from that of other regions.

The following republics are included in Central Asia: Turkmenistan, which spreads from the Caspian Sea to the middle reaches of the one of the largest central Asian rivers, the Amu-Darya (Vahsh in ancient times, Oxus in Greek, and Jeihun in the Middle Ages); Karakalpakistan, within the Republic of Uzbekistan, located in the lower region of the Amu-Darya River. Uzbekistan covers the central area between the two rivers (called Maverannahr in the Middle Ages) i.e. the lands between the two biggest central Asian rivers, the Syr-Darya and Amu-Darya. Tajikistan is situated to the southeast, and Kyrgyzstan on the northeast.

The desert areas and steppes of Central Asia are characterized by their continental climate and intensive isolation, extreme aridity, and sparse precipitation. Their remoteness from oceans, the major humidity source, little atmospheric precipitation, and high summer temperatures which created prolonged droughts, caused the formation of the vast desert regions here.

Begin your journey through Central Asia! You will see splendid architecture, feel at one with stunning wilderness, feel the hot wind of deserts and admire dazzling mountain summits.
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