Central Asia
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Central Asia is a region in Asia which stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north, including the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It is also colloquially referred to as "the stans" as the countries all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of".
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See also
- Chinese Central Asia: Western Regions
- Central Asian studies
- Central Asian Union
- Central Asian Football Federation
- Central Asian Games
- Continental pole of inaccessibility
- Economic Cooperation Organization
- Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program
- Inner Asia
- Hindutash
- Central Asians in Ancient Indian literature
- Russian Turkestan
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