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• South Kazakhstan Region
  | timezone1 = East ...north), [[Kyzylorda Region]] (to the west), and [[Jambyl Region]] (to the east). The [[Syr Darya]] passes through the region, on its way to the [[Aral Sea
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• Grigory Potanin
  ...pher and natural historian. He was a [[Victorian-era]] explorer of [[Inner Asia]], and was the first to catalogue many of the area's native plants. On home ...here, he was the first foreigner to report on the [[Eastern Yugur language|East Yugur]] and [[Western Yugur language|West Yugur]] languages, making a gloss
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• Sayram (city)
  [[Archaeology]] in Central Asia was active following its conquest by the [[Russian Empire]], but remains a ...,'' 'shallow water,' which coincidentally is the name of the river running east of the center of the city. Kāsgharī also later notes the verb ''seyremlen
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• Khan Tengri
  ...located on the [[China]]—[[Kyrgyzstan]]—[[Kazakhstan]] border, east of lake [[Issyk Kul]]. Its geologic elevation is {{convert|6995|m|ft|0|abb [[Category:International mountains of Asia]]
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• Ural Mountains
  ...tinents|conventional boundary]] between the continents of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. [[Vaygach Island]] and the islands of [[Novaya Zemlya]] form a further c ...Western Si. beria in the Bronze and Iron Ages.] [http://www.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780511266911&ss=exc Cambridge University Pres
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• Southern Ural
  ...l River]]. From the west and east of the Southern Ural is limited to the [[East European]], [[West Siberian Plain]] and the steppes near [[Aral Sea]] anb [ [[Category:Mountain ranges of Asia]]
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• Mount Narodnaya
  ...n [[Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug]] in [[Tyumen Oblast]], 0.5 km to east from the border of [[Komi Republic]].{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} The ...n the border between [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]: the Naroda river flows south-east from the summit into the [[Ob river]] in [[Siberia]], and the Kos'yu river
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• Ural Mountains in Nazi planning
  {{Further|Boundaries between continents#Europe and Asia}} ...hat "the Europe of today was nothing but a geographical term; in reality [[Asia]] extended up to our frontiers".<ref name="bormann">[http://germanhistorydo
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• Main Uralian Fault
  ...astern continental margin zone of the European Plate ([[Baltica]]). On the east the rocks are [[Accretion (geology)|accreted]] oceanic and [[island arc]] [ ...of a north-south magmatic axis in the southern Urals that runs through the East Uralian megazone.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Fershtater, G.B., Montero, P.,
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• Ural (region)
  ...bend of [[Ural River]] near [[Orsk]] city. The boundary between Europe and Asia runs along the eastern side of the Ural Mountains.<ref name=bse>{{cite web| ...s are fed by melting snow and precipitations. The largest lakes are on the east of the Central and Southern Urals. They include Tawatui, [[Argazi Reservoir
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• Tian Shan
  ...ation1_free2value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia|Asia]] ...ation2_free2value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia and Australasia|Asia]]
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• Altai Mountains
  ...tween 84° and 90° E (where it merges with the [[Sayan Mountains]] to the east), and extends southeast from there to about 45° N and 99° E, where it gra ...[Chapchan-daban]], at 3,217 m, in the south and north respectively. On the east and southeast this range is flanked by the great [[plateau]] of Mongolia, t
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• Altaic languages
  |region = [[North Asia|North]], [[Central Asia|Central]], and [[West Asia]], and [[Eastern Europe]] ...p is named after the [[Altai Mountains|Altai mountain range]] in [[Central Asia]].
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• Dzungaria
  ...s are on the left hand side when the Mongol Empire began its division into East and West Mongols. After this fragmentation, the western Mongolian nation wa ...Chinese, multicultural, settled by Han and Hui, and separated from Central Asia for over a century and a half.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FW8SB
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• Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
  * [[Geographic coordinate]]s: 79º50'30″{{spaced ndash}}84º56'50″ East, 42º14'16″{{spaced ndash}}44º50'30″ North ...akh Autonomous Prefecture is west of [[Mongolia]], south of [[Russia]] and east of [[Kazakhstan]]. Its foreign boundary is {{convert|2,000|km|abbr=on}}, ge
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• Irtysh River
  ...[Ishim River]]. The Ob-Irtysh system forms a major [[drainage basin]] in [[Asia]], encompassing most of [[West Siberian Plain|Western Siberia]] and the Alt |title=Fish and Fisheries at Higher Altitudes: Asia
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• Lake Zaysan
  ...|Altai]] and the [[Tarbagatai Mountains]]. It is the largest lake in the [[East Kazakhstan Province]]. ...ries are the ''[[Kara Irtysh]]'' (Black Irtysh) and [[Kendyrlyk]] from the east; its only outlet is the [[Irtysh River]] (or White Irtysh). The lake is gen
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• Pazyryk burials
  ...ythians. Trading routes between [[Central Asia]], [[China]] and the [[Near East]] passed through the oases on the plateau and these ancient Altai nomads pr ...ce that Pazyryk trade routes were vast and connected with large areas of [[Asia]] including [[India]], perhaps Pazyryk merchants largely trading in high qu
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• Seima-Turbino phenomenon
  | title = A history of Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia ...& Kijngam, A. (2011). Cutting a Gordian Knot: the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia: origins, timing and impact. Antiquity, 85(328).</ref>
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• Iris ludwigii
  ...violet-blue flowers. It is native to the [[Altai Mountains]] in [[Central Asia]], where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan meet. It is cultivated as ...hromosome sequencing of various Irises from the Siberian region of central Asia. They sequenced the [[RuBisCO|rbcL gene]] from some Siberian Iris species b
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• Caspian Depression
  ...oil and natural gas pipelines cross the depression from north to south and east to west. Many geologists believe the Caspian Sea and the depression were fo [[Category:East European Plain]]
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• Aral–Caspian Depression
  ...northern part is called the [[Caspian Depression]]. The desert part to the east of the [[Caspian Depression]] and Caspian is called the [[Turan Depression] [[Category:Endorheic basins of Asia]]
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• Akbaur cave
  '''Akbaur cave''' is one of the monuments of the [[bronze age]], located in [[East Kazakhstan]], Ukan region. The site is 3&nbsp;km from the north of Besterek [[Category:Caves of Asia]]
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• Sherkala
  ...company BW-KZ |location=Almaty}}</ref> or [[Sphinx]] with steep south and east sides and a more eroded northern side.<ref name="VK173">http://visitkazakhs ...f a [[medieval]] [[caravanserei]]<ref name="LP">{{cite book |title=Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan |last=Mayhew
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• Northern river reversal
  ...Ocean]], southwards towards the populated agricultural areas of [[Central Asia]], which lack water.<ref name=time75/><ref name=time82/> ...uction due to the availability of Siberian water for irrigation in Central Asia could provide food for some 200,000,000 people.<ref name=weiner/>
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• Ili River
  ...Note that the map is upside down, i.e. the north is at the bottom, and the east is on the left]] ...ma H 2006:''Decrease of river runoff in the Lake Balkhash basin in Central Asia''. Hydrological Processes Vol. 20 Is. 6 Pp 1407–1423</ref> near [[Kapchag
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• Ayaguz River
  ...ere defeated on the River Ayaguz. <ref>History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Development in contrast : from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ...y Ghobadi Pour et al. in 2011 in [[Katian]], [[Karagech Formation]] on the east side of the Ayaguz River {{convert|7|km|mi|0}} north of [[Akchi|Akchii]] vi
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• Lake Balkhash
  |width = East {{convert|74|km|abbr=on}} <br />West {{convert|19|km|abbr=on}} ...t of lakes by area|15th largest in the world]]. It is located in [[Central Asia]] in southeastern [[Kazakhstan]] and belongs to an [[endorheic]] (closed) b
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• Caspian Sea
  ...orheic basin]] (a basin without outflows) located between [[Europe]] and [[Asia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Caspian Sea|url=http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Asi ...the [[Caucasus Mountains]] and to the west of the vast steppe of [[Central Asia]]. The sea bed in the southern part reaches as low as 1023 m below sea leve
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• Aral Sea
  |location = [[Kazakhstan]] - [[Uzbekistan]],<br>[[Central Asia]] ...GE BASIN OF THE ARAL SEA AND OTHER TRANSBOUNDARY SURFACE WATERS IN CENTRAL ASIA|website=United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)|date= 2005|ac
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• Kazakh Steppe
  ...thern [[Kazakhstan]] and adjacent portions of [[Russia]], extending to the east of the [[Pontic steppe]] and to the west of the [[Emin Valley steppe]], wit ...he southwestern part of the steppe, but elevation increases as one travels east or to the northern parts of the steppe, with a few exceptions.
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• Central Asian Orogenic Belt
  ...f [[Buratia]] in southern Siberia south of [[Lake Baikal]], and in the Far East of China and Russia. | title = Late Cambrian-Ordovician tectonics and geodynamics of Central Asia
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• Macroolithus
  It is found in [[Upper Cretaceous]] formations of central and eastern Asia; fossils have been found in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China. In the Nanxiong ...rmation]] (also called Manrakskaya Svita) of the [[Zaisan Basin]] in the [[East Kazakhstan Region]]. This formation is near to the [[Tayzhuzgen River]], an
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• Eurasian Land Bridge
  ...]. As of November 2007, about 1% of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes.<ref>Berk.</r ...ntil the early 1990s the railway served as the primary land bridge between Asia and Europe, until several factors caused the use of the railway for transco
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• New Eurasian Land Bridge
  ...f China]]. The Eurasian Land Bridge is the overland rail link between East Asia and Europe. ...Noinvite102810>{{cite news|title=China Invites Bulgaria to Join High-Speed Asia-Europe Rail with Turkey|url=http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=121602
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• Tourism in Kazakhstan
  ...guardian1">{{cite web|author=Joanna Lillis for EurasiaNet, part of the New East |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/kazakhstan-eases-visa-re ...o establish five tourism clusters in Kazakhstan: Astana city, Almaty city, East Kazakhstan, South Kazakhstan, and West Kazakhstan Oblasts. It also seeks in
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• Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve
  .../ ''Aqsu-Zhabaghyly Qoryghy''}}) is the oldest nature reserve in [[Central Asia]]. It is located in the southern province of the [[Republic of Kazakhstan]]
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• Silk Road
  | designation1_free1value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Asia|Asia-Pacific]] ...tion through regions of the Asian continent connecting the [[Eastern world|East]] and [[Western culture|West]] and stretching from the Korean peninsula<ref
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• Semipalatinsk Test Site
  ...own of [[Semey|Semipalatinsk]] (later renamed Semey), near the border of [[East Kazakhstan Province]] and [[Pavlodar Province]] with most of the nuclear te Later tests were moved to the Chagan River complex and nearby Balapan in the east of the STS (including the site of the [[Chagan (nuclear test)|Chagan test]]
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• Leonid Brezhnev
  |caption=Brezhnev in [[East Berlin]] in 1967 ...ediately drafted. He worked to evacuate Dnipropetrovsk's industries to the east of the Soviet Union before the city fell to the Germans on 26 August, and t
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• Anti-nuclear movement in Kazakhstan
  ...to the closure of the [[nuclear test site]] at [[Semipalatinsk]] in north-east Kazakhstan in 1991.<ref name=bbc1999/><ref name=chance/><ref name=krech/> T ...ef name=bbc1999>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/288008.stm World: Asia-Pacific: Kazakh anti-nuclear movement celebrates tenth anniversary] ''BBC N
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• Pontic–Caspian steppe
  ...l River|Ural]] or [[30th meridian east|30°]] to [[55th meridian east|55° east]] longitude, and from the [[Black Sea]] and the [[Caucasus]] in the south t ...f the larger [[Eurasian steppe]], adjacent to the [[Kazakh steppe]] to the east. It is a part of the [[Palearctic ecozone|Palearctic]] temperate grasslands
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• White-tailed eagle
  ...ecies, while those from the (now discontinuous) population in the [[Middle East]], at the southern extreme of this species distribution, are the smallest i ...s a rare winter visitor to [[India]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide|last=Rasmussen & Anderton|first=P.C. & J.C.|publisher=Smi
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• Greater flamingo
  ...It is found in [[Africa]], on the [[Indian subcontinent]], in the [[Middle East]] and southern [[Europe]]. ...astal regions of [[Pakistan]], [[India]], and [[Sri Lanka]]), the [[Middle East]] ([[Turkey]], [[Israel]], [[Lebanon]], [[Kuwait]]) and southern [[Europe]]
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• Red-footed falcon
  ...[[Falconidae]], the falcons. This [[bird]] is found in eastern Europe and Asia although its numbers are dwindling rapidly due to habitat loss and hunting. ...including the larger nesting colonies, are found in the Banat region, i.e. east of the Tisa River. More than 90% of the red-footed falcons continue to nest
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• Mute swan
  ...ume=8 |issue=1 |pages=89–98}}</ref> They have been recorded from Ireland east to Portugal and Italy,<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Palmer |editor-first=Ra ...naturally mainly in temperate areas of Europe across western Asia, as far east as the [[Primorsky Krai|Russian Maritimes]], near Sidemi.<ref name="Demente
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• Grey partridge
  ...This partridge breeds on farmland across most of [[Europe]] into western [[Asia]], and has been introduced widely into [[Canada]], [[United States]], [[Sou ...|Altum]], 1894)</small> – eastern grey partridge, found from [[Finland]] east to [[Ural Mountains]] and south to [[Black Sea]] and northern [[Caucasus]]
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• Steppe eagle
  ...eagle breeds from [[Romania]] east through the south Russian and [[Central Asia]]n steppes to [[Mongolia]]. The [[Europe]]an and Central Asian birds winter
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• Eversmann's redstart
  ...e birds move downhill for the winter while others, especially in the north-east of the range, [[bird migration|migrate]] longer distances. The wintering ra ...Porter, R. F.; Christensen, S. & Willis, Ian (1988) ''Birds of the Middle East and North Africa'', T & AD Poyser, Calton, England.
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• Terek sandpiper
  ...gration|migrate]] south in winter to tropical coasts in east Africa, south Asia and [[Australia]], usually preferring muddy areas. It is a rare vagrant in
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