Central Asia is a region of Asia. Various definitions of its exact composition exist.
One definition states that it covers about 9,029,000 km2, or 21% of the continent. It is the second...
... largest region in Asia, after North Asia. Under this definition Central Asia includes the following regions:
* Kazakhstan (the territories east of the Ural River),
* Kyrgyzstan,
* Tajikistan,
* Turkmenistan
* Uzbekistan and
* Afghanistan
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