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Central Asia

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Central Asia Explained

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Gravitas Plus | Central Asia: New Global Turf War

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CENTRAL ASIA || World Geography Mapping

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World's Most Underrated Region! (CENTRAL ASIA)

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The Land of the 'Stans - Geography of Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. The region consists of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It is also colloquially referred to as "the stans" as the countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of".
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