CENTRALASIA
Central Asia
Central Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, "the 'stans" and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Central Asia
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