Asian Russia

Asian Russia

1. Ural Mountains

   • Mount Narodnaya is the highest peak
   • Noraya Zemlya's two islands are the largest in the Eurasian Artic
   • Southern Urals
     • Yekaterinburg is Russia's fourth largest city
     • It is more populous than the north
     • Most important minerals are iron and copper

2. Siberia

   • Major geographic regions
     • West Siberian plain
       • Possibly the largest plain in the world
       • Novosibirsk (New Siberia) is the largest city in Siberia
         • Made Russia the fifth producer of coal worldwide in 2011
     • Central Siberian Plateau
       • Taymyr Peninsula is the northernmost mainland area in the world
       • Gives Russia 13 percent of the world's platinum
       • Altaya and Tuva retain the ethnic majority
         • Altaya is at the border of China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan
         • Altaya contains Mt.Belukha, the hightest peak of the Altai mountains
     • East Siberian Upland
       • Lena river is the eleventh longest river in the world
       • The Far East
         • Vladivostok is Russia's main Pacific port
         • Kamchatka peninsula contains 29 active volcanoes
           • Mount Klyuchevskaya is Siberia's highest peak
         • Borders China and North Korea
           • The Sakhalin Island and Kuril islands border Japan
           • The Bering Strait borders US' Alaska
       • Sakha is the largest Russian republic
         • Also the world's harshest climate of any inhabited area
         • It made Russia the fourth largest producer of gold in 2012
   • It's mostly composed by the Taiga biome
   • It has no mountain ranges to block the cold
     • The temperature varies from -60F to 100F
   • Covers 2/3 of Russia
     • The Trans-Siberian Railway links the regions
   • Siberia has various unofficial flags

3. Among the greatest source of mineral and fuel in the world

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