Central Asia

- the name used to identify upland-montane area of Central Asia, located more than 1000 km from the open sea . This region includes Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrg yzstan and Tajikistan, as well as Mongolia and western China (Tib et autonomous regions, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang Uighur and Ningxia and the provinces of Qinghai and Gansu). The region is an area of over 10.5 million square km, is very sparsely populated - population of around 120 million inhabitants (1990). In the second approach, cultural and religious (rather than strictly geographical), Central Asia includes the areas of central Asia, mainly inhabited by Muslim peoples of Turkish origin (and Afghans) above the former Soviet republics, the Chinese province of Xinjiang Uighur and Afghanistan.

Tagi: well open an region and very Afghanistan. central