North Asia
Area | 13,100,000 km2 (5,100,000 sq mi) |
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Population | 37 million (2021 census) |
Population density | 2.6 per km2 (7.4 per mi2) |
GDP (nominal) | $480 billion (2021)[1] |
GDP per capita | $13,000 (2021) |
Ethnic groups | Majority Slavic Minority Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic peoples |
Religions | Majority Orthodox Christian |
Demonym | Siberian, North Asian |
Countries | Russia |
Languages | Official languages |
Time zones | |
Internet TLD | .ru |
Calling code | Zone 7 |
Largest cities | |
UN M49 code | 151 – Eastern Europe150 – Europe001 – World |
North Asia | |
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Russian name | |
Russian | Северная Азия |
Romanization | Severnaya Aziya |
North Asia or Northern Asia, also referred to as Siberia, is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographical terms and is coextensive with the Asian part of Russia and consists of three federal districts of Russia: Ural, Siberian, and the Far Eastern. North Asia is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to its north; by Eastern Europe to its west; by Central and East Asia to its south; and by the Pacific Ocean and North America to its east. It covers an area of 13,100,000 square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), or 8.8% of Earth's total land area; and is the largest subregion of Asia by area, [vague] but is also the least populated, [vague] with a population of around 37 million, accounting for merely 0.74% of Asia's population.
Topographically, the region is dominated by the
North Asia, geographically, is a subregion of Asia. However, because it was colonised and incorporated into Russia, some international organisations either consider or classify North Asia as part of Eastern Europe along with European Russia.
History
The region was first populated by
Geography
For geographical and statistical reasons, the United Nations geoscheme and various other classification schemes will not subdivide countries, and thus place all of Russia in Europe or the Eastern Europe subregion.
There are no mountain chains in North Asia to prevent air currents from the Arctic flowing down over the plains of Siberia and Turkestan.[10]
The plateau and plains of North Asia comprise the West Siberian Lowlands; the Angara Shield, with the Taymyr Peninsula, the coastal lowlands (the East Siberian Lowland and the North Siberian Lowland), and the Central Siberian Plateau (the Anabar Plateau, the Lena Plateau, the Lena-Angara Plateau, the Putorana Plateau, the Tunguska Plateau, and the Vilyuy Plateau); and the Central Yakutian Lowland.[11] Western Siberia is usually regarded as the Northwest Asia, Kazakhstan also sometimes included there. However, Northwest Asia sometimes refers to the South Caucasus or its nearby areas.[citation needed]
Geomorphology
The geomorphology of Northern Asia in general is imperfectly known, although the deposits and mountain ranges are well known.[11]
To compensate for new
Northern Asia is built around the Angara Shield, which lies between the
There are three main periods of mountain building in Northern Asia, although it has occurred many times. The outer fold mountains that are on the margins of the Shields and that only affected Asia north of the line of the
Physical map of Northern Asia (the map also contains parts of Central and East Asia). |
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Northern Asia was
Several of the mountainous regions are volcanic, with both the
The Angara Shield also underlies the lowlands of the
Demographics
Most estimates are that there are around 33 million
In 1875, Chambers reported the population of Northern Asia to be 8 million.[10] Between 1801 and 1914, an estimated 7 million settlers moved from European Russia to Siberia, 85% during the quarter-century before World War I.[15]
Rank | Region | Pop. | |||||||
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Novosibirsk Yekaterinburg |
1 | Novosibirsk | Siberia | 1,602,915 | Chelyabinsk Omsk | ||||
2 | Yekaterinburg | Ural (region) | 1,455,514 | ||||||
3 | Chelyabinsk | Ural (region) | 1,198,858 | ||||||
4 | Omsk | Siberia | 1,178,391 | ||||||
5 | Krasnoyarsk | Siberia | 1,082,933 | ||||||
6 | Tyumen | Ural (region) | 744,554 | ||||||
7 | Barnaul | Siberia | 633,301 | ||||||
8 | Irkutsk | Siberia | 623,736 | ||||||
9 | Khabarovsk | Russian Far East | 616,242 | ||||||
10 | Vladivostok | Russian Far East | 606,589 |
Administration
See also
- Arctic Region
- Far North
- European Russia
- Asia
- Geography of Asia
- Northeast Asia
- Russian Far East
- Ural region
- Siberian High, a semipermament anticyclone
References
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- Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
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External links
- Media related to North Asia at Wikimedia Commons