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a With population over 500,000 people. Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and European Russia in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, [ 4 ] and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Siberia in the north.
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey all have territory in both Asia and Europe. Armenia and Cyprus are entirely in Western Asia but are socio-politically European countries and members of the Council of Europe, with Cyprus also being a member of the European Union. [citation needed] The division between Asia and Africa ...
This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. Former countries in Central Asia (27 C, 48 P) Geography of Central Asia by country (7 C) Religion in Central Asia by country (6 C)
The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has designated 19 World Heritage Sites in six countries (also called "state parties") of Central and North Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and the Asian part of Russia. [1] The European part of Russia is included in Eastern Europe.
A 2022 study confirmed the genetic continuity between modern Indo-Iranian-speaking Central Asians and Iron Age populations in southern Central Asia. Iron Age Central Asians were descended from historical Indo-Iranians, who settled in the region at the end of the Bronze Age.
Asian countries by GDP (PPP) per capita in 2017. This is a list of Asian countries by GDP per capita based on purchasing power parity.All figures are given in international dollars and are the latest estimates from the International Monetary Fund. [1]
National Bureau of Statistics of China. 29 Feb 2024. Table 1: Population and Its Composition by the End of 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024. ^ Official estimate "Population Data". Ministry of Home Affairs. 11 Oct 2022. 1. Total Population of Indonesia. Retrieved 13 May 2023. ^ "Indonesia: Cities and Settlements".
Homo sapiens reached Central Asia by 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. The Tibetan Plateau is thought to have been reached by 38,000 years ago. [7] [8] [9] The currently oldest modern human sample found in northern Central Asia, is a 45,000-year-old remain, which was genetically closest to ancient and modern East Asians, but his lineage died out quite early.