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Siberia (/ s a ɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə / sy- ... Sakha is the coldest Siberian region, and the basin of the Yana has the lowest temperatures of all, with permafrost ...
East Siberian Lowland, a vast alluvial plain, swampy and dotted with thousands of lakes. The region includes the Yana-Indigirka, Kolyma and Aby lowlands, as well as the New Siberian Islands. Area about 1,100,000 km 2 (420,000 sq mi). [4] East Siberian Mountains, a large mountainous area located in
Siberia is known for its long, harsh winters, with a January average of −25 °C (−13 °F). Although it is geographically in Asia, Russian sovereignty and colonization since the 16th century has led to perceptions of the region as culturally and ethnically European.
Siberian Federal District (Russian: Сибирский федеральный округ, IPA: [sʲɪˈbʲirskʲɪj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk]) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. Its population was 17,178,298 according to the 2010 Census , [ 2 ] living in an area of 4,361,800 square kilometers (1,684,100 sq mi). [ 1 ]
The largest rivers of the region are the Irtysh and the Ob. [1] All major rivers of Western Siberia belong to the Kara Sea basin. The West Siberian petroleum basin is the largest hydrocarbon (petroleum and natural gas) basin in the world covering an area of about 2.2 million km 2, and is also the largest oil and gas producing region in Russia. [2]
Frozen wilderness of far northern Chukotka. Chukotka is bordered in the north by the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea, which are part of the Arctic Ocean; in the east by the Bering Strait and the Bering Sea, part of the Pacific Ocean; in the south by Kamchatka Krai and Magadan Oblast; and in the west by the Sakha Republic.
This is a list of Russian federal districts by GDP measures counted in PPP or Nominal. The Central Federal District, North Caucasian Federal District, Northwestern Federal District, Southern Federal District and the Volga Federal District are counted for the European part of Russia, while the Far Eastern Federal District, Siberian Federal District and Ural Federal District are counted for the ...
West Siberia Economic Region For economic and statistical purposes the federal subjects are grouped into twelve economic regions. [ 24 ] Economic regions and their parts sharing common economic trends are in turn grouped into economic zones and macrozones .