Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, which are colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as the countries all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of". In the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras ( and earlier) Central Asia was inhabited predominantly by Iranian peoples, populated by Eastern Iranian-speaking Bactrians, Sogdians, Chorasmians and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Dahae. After expansion by Turkic peoples, Central Asia also became the homeland for the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, and Uyghurs; Turkic languages largely replaced the Iranian languages spoken in the area, with the exception of Tajikistan and areas where Tajik is spoken. Central A ...
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List Of Continents By Population
This is a list of continents and continental subregions by population. Distribution of populations by the United Nations geoscheme Global, continental, and subregional totals from 1950 to Africa Americas North America South America Asia Europe Oceania World See also * Human geography * List of countries and dependencies by area * List of countries and dependencies by population * List of countries and dependencies by population density * List of countries by past and projected future population * List of countries by population in 1900 * List of countries by population in 1907 * List of countries by population in 2005 * List of countries by population in 2010 * List of population concern organizations * List of religious populations * List of sovereign states * World population References {{reflist Source * All figures come from th2015 Revision
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