Eurasian Steppe

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country situated primarily in Central Asia, with a portion of its territory extending into Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, and it has a coastline along the Caspian Sea. The capital is Astana and the country's largest city and principal cultural and economic center is Almaty, which served as the capital until 1997.

Mongolia is a landlocked country in the East Asia region. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, and covers an area of , making it the 18th-largest country in the world and the second largest landlocked country after Kazakhstan, as well as the largest landlocked country that does not border an inland sea. With a population of 3.5 million, Mongolia is the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state, excluding partially unrecognized Western Sahara. The country constitutes a significant portion of the Mongolian Plateau, and its natural environment is characterized

Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west (with the Ural River usually forming the southernmost portion of its western boundary) to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states since the lengthy conquest of Siberia, which began with the fall of the Khanate of Sibir in 1582 and concluded with the annexation of Chukotka in 1778. Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, covering an area of over – about three-quarters of Russia's total area, but home to

large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia

steppe ecoregion of grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

geographical feature of Hungary

ecoregion of grasslands that encompass most of the western segment of the Eurasian steppe

thumb|Typical draw well in the puszta in the Hortobágy National Park The Hungarian puszta () is a temperate grassland biome of the Great Hungarian Plain. It is an exclave of the Pannonian Steppe, and lies mainly around the River Tisza in the eastern part of Hungary, as well as in the western part of the country and in the Burgenland of Austria.

mountain pass

Ecoregion of grasslands that encompass most of the eastern segment of the Eurasian steppe

plain in Western Siberia

valley of Emin (or Emil) river, in Kazakhstan and China

steppe in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia

species of plant

ancient overland route through the Eurasian Steppe; precursor of the Silk Road