Soviet Central Asia
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Key facts
- Area
- 4,003,451 km (1,545,741 sq mi)
- Population
- 49,374,612 (1989 census)
- Demonym
- Central Asian, Soviet
- Countries
- Soviet Union , 5 Republics Kazakhstan Kirghizia Tajikistan Turkmenia Uzbekistan
- Languages
- Karakalpak , Kazakh , Kyrgyz , Russian , Tajik , Turkmen , Uzbek , and Others
- Time zones
- 2 time zones UTC+05:00 : Standard: Kazakhstan (5 regions), Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan UTC+06:00 : Standard: Kazakhstan (4 cities, 9 regions), Kyrgyzstan
- Internet tld
- .su , .kg , .kz , .tj , .tm , .uz
- Calling code
- Zone 9 except Kazakhstan (Zone 7)
- Largest cities
- List Alma-Ata Ashkhabad Frunze Dushanbe Karaganda Namangan Samarkand Shymkent Tashkent Tselinograd
- Un m49 code
- 143 – Central Asia , 142 – Asia , 001 – World
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Continent
- Asia
- Image
- Map of Central Asia.svg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Soviet Central Asia
- different from
- Central Asia
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- broader concept
- Central Asia
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible Eurasian boundaries for the subregion
Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian Soviet republics declared independence. It is nearly synonymous with Russian Turkestan in the Russian Empire. Soviet Central Asia went through many territorial divisions before the current borders were created in the 1920s and 1930s.
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