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This question has bothered me for some time. What to think of Siberia ? To what does Siberia belong; in terms of human geogrphy, history, politics & economy, culture, ethnicity, language, and other things ?
Siberia mostly belongs to Russia, which in turn is considered a European country. What then is Siberia ?
1. Europe: Eastern Europe by extension of Russia's possession of West Siberia since 1581.
2. Asia: Russian colonial territory in Asia.
3. Neither: Ought to be considered a separate entity neither all European nor all Asian. For a new name, how about the following ?
Eurussuria, for eu "good" + russ "Russia" + ussuri "Ussuri River, Chinese Heilongjiang ?K???]" + a "big place"
Interesting stats regading area (unit: square miles) & population (unit: 1,000) of (1970)
Region:..........Russia....Russia in Europe.....Siberia...........Asia
Area: ..............6,593.......................1,262......5,331........17,139
Population:...130,090.....................94,485....35,605....2,661,000
Only 19% of Russian territory lies in Europe; 81% lies in Asia
Upto 73% of Russians live in Europe; 27% in Asia.
Physically Siberia constitutes 39% of the Asian Continent in the traditional sense.
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Siberia Fact Sheet pulled from various sources
Siberia refers to the "region in NE Asia in Russia extending from the Urals to the Pacific; roughly coextensive with Russia in Asia" (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., 1998)
"on North bounded by the Arctic Ocean., Sounthern limits crossing Khazakh Republic, and the boundaries of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
The region lies almost entirely in within Russia except for a small part in the Khazakh Republic; regarding administration the political subdivisions bordering on the Ural Mts. and the Pacific Ocean are not considered Siberia.
Administrative units: Altai Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Tomsk oblasts, and the Buryat, Tuva, and Yakutsk Republics.
Physical features: Bordered by Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian Seas on North, and by Bering Sea, Sea of Okhostk, and the Sea of Korea-Japan on East.
Has 3 large peninsulas Taimyr, Chukotski, and Kamchatka.
Principle islands off its coasts are Severnaya Zemlya group, New Siberian Is., Wrangel, Komandorskiye Is., and Sakhalin.
The northern belt along the Arctic Ocean consists of open, frozen tundra, rich in fur-bearing animals.
In the west are low plains, some with extensive marshland.
In the south & central parts are several plateaus.
In the east & south-east numerous mountain ranges; Eastern Range on Kamchatka, containing highest peak in Siberia (Klyuchevskaya Sopka 15,580 ft.); Cherskogo and Chukot Ranges, and Verkhoyansk Kolyma and Yablonovy Mts., and the Sikhote-Alin along the coast of the Sea of Korea-Japan; Sayan Mts. on the southern border and Ural Mts. on the west.
Its great rivers, the Ob, Yenisei, and Lena, flow north to the Arctic Ocean, and the Amur on its SE border flows to east to Tartar Straight; other rivers are the Khatanga, Yana, Indigirka, Kolyma, and Anadyr. In the south is the large lake Baikal.
Chief products: Coal, iron ore, manganese, gold, copper, lead, zinc, tungsten; large oil fields in west brought into production in 1966; spring wheat, oats, rye,; lumbering, fishing.
Chief cities: Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Irkutsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Tomsk, Ulan-ude, Chita.
History: Tartar Khanate of Siberia conquored for Russia by Cossacks under Ermak Timofeev 1581 (Cossack name of Region Sibi'r /s@-bi'r/); region of the Amur reached by Russians in 1644 and partly abandoned by Treaty of Nerchinsk 1689; Maritime Province ceded to Russia by China 1860; connected with Russia by Trans-Siberian Rail Road, built 1891-1905.
Eastern Siberia the scene of activities of anti-Bolshevist Admiral Kolchak and of Allied intervention 1918-1919; reconquored by Boshevks and made part of Russia.
In WWII its western part, esp. the industrial and mining areas, played an important role in the Soviet war effort. Has undergone large-scale colonization and exploitation of its natural resouces since WWII."
(Adapted with nominal adjustments from Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988)
note: Official names of the independent republics since the former USSR have not been verified.
note: The controversial sea between South Korea (Eastern Sea, 동해, Donghae, ???C), North Korea (Eastern Sea of Joseon, 동조선해, Donjoseonhae, ?????N?C), Japan (Sea of Japan, ?ɂ??ۃA????, ?ɂكA????, Nipponkai, Nihonkai, ???{?C), and Russia has been temporarily styled 'Sea of Korea-Japan' adopting some forumers' opnion in previous discussions on the forum, Japan Reference. For those of you who might find the order in which Korea & Japan appear as offensive could equally use the alternative, 'Sea of Japan-Korea,' thus making the term context friendly depending on the particular communication situation.
Websters' Online Dictionary on Sea of Japan Controversy
Siberia mostly belongs to Russia, which in turn is considered a European country. What then is Siberia ?
1. Europe: Eastern Europe by extension of Russia's possession of West Siberia since 1581.
2. Asia: Russian colonial territory in Asia.
3. Neither: Ought to be considered a separate entity neither all European nor all Asian. For a new name, how about the following ?
Eurussuria, for eu "good" + russ "Russia" + ussuri "Ussuri River, Chinese Heilongjiang ?K???]" + a "big place"
Interesting stats regading area (unit: square miles) & population (unit: 1,000) of (1970)
Region:..........Russia....Russia in Europe.....Siberia...........Asia
Area: ..............6,593.......................1,262......5,331........17,139
Population:...130,090.....................94,485....35,605....2,661,000
Only 19% of Russian territory lies in Europe; 81% lies in Asia
Upto 73% of Russians live in Europe; 27% in Asia.
Physically Siberia constitutes 39% of the Asian Continent in the traditional sense.
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Siberia Fact Sheet pulled from various sources
Siberia refers to the "region in NE Asia in Russia extending from the Urals to the Pacific; roughly coextensive with Russia in Asia" (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., 1998)
"on North bounded by the Arctic Ocean., Sounthern limits crossing Khazakh Republic, and the boundaries of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
The region lies almost entirely in within Russia except for a small part in the Khazakh Republic; regarding administration the political subdivisions bordering on the Ural Mts. and the Pacific Ocean are not considered Siberia.
Administrative units: Altai Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Tomsk oblasts, and the Buryat, Tuva, and Yakutsk Republics.
Physical features: Bordered by Kara, Laptev, and East Siberian Seas on North, and by Bering Sea, Sea of Okhostk, and the Sea of Korea-Japan on East.
Has 3 large peninsulas Taimyr, Chukotski, and Kamchatka.
Principle islands off its coasts are Severnaya Zemlya group, New Siberian Is., Wrangel, Komandorskiye Is., and Sakhalin.
The northern belt along the Arctic Ocean consists of open, frozen tundra, rich in fur-bearing animals.
In the west are low plains, some with extensive marshland.
In the south & central parts are several plateaus.
In the east & south-east numerous mountain ranges; Eastern Range on Kamchatka, containing highest peak in Siberia (Klyuchevskaya Sopka 15,580 ft.); Cherskogo and Chukot Ranges, and Verkhoyansk Kolyma and Yablonovy Mts., and the Sikhote-Alin along the coast of the Sea of Korea-Japan; Sayan Mts. on the southern border and Ural Mts. on the west.
Its great rivers, the Ob, Yenisei, and Lena, flow north to the Arctic Ocean, and the Amur on its SE border flows to east to Tartar Straight; other rivers are the Khatanga, Yana, Indigirka, Kolyma, and Anadyr. In the south is the large lake Baikal.
Chief products: Coal, iron ore, manganese, gold, copper, lead, zinc, tungsten; large oil fields in west brought into production in 1966; spring wheat, oats, rye,; lumbering, fishing.
Chief cities: Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Irkutsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Tomsk, Ulan-ude, Chita.
History: Tartar Khanate of Siberia conquored for Russia by Cossacks under Ermak Timofeev 1581 (Cossack name of Region Sibi'r /s@-bi'r/); region of the Amur reached by Russians in 1644 and partly abandoned by Treaty of Nerchinsk 1689; Maritime Province ceded to Russia by China 1860; connected with Russia by Trans-Siberian Rail Road, built 1891-1905.
Eastern Siberia the scene of activities of anti-Bolshevist Admiral Kolchak and of Allied intervention 1918-1919; reconquored by Boshevks and made part of Russia.
In WWII its western part, esp. the industrial and mining areas, played an important role in the Soviet war effort. Has undergone large-scale colonization and exploitation of its natural resouces since WWII."
(Adapted with nominal adjustments from Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988)
note: Official names of the independent republics since the former USSR have not been verified.
note: The controversial sea between South Korea (Eastern Sea, 동해, Donghae, ???C), North Korea (Eastern Sea of Joseon, 동조선해, Donjoseonhae, ?????N?C), Japan (Sea of Japan, ?ɂ??ۃA????, ?ɂكA????, Nipponkai, Nihonkai, ???{?C), and Russia has been temporarily styled 'Sea of Korea-Japan' adopting some forumers' opnion in previous discussions on the forum, Japan Reference. For those of you who might find the order in which Korea & Japan appear as offensive could equally use the alternative, 'Sea of Japan-Korea,' thus making the term context friendly depending on the particular communication situation.
Websters' Online Dictionary on Sea of Japan Controversy
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