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Siberia Bolshiye Koty on Lake Baikal A tundra landscape in summer on the Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, with grassy hills, scattered rocks, and shallow lakes or streams under a cloudy sky. Oil pumpjack with a red counterweight operating in a snowy field in western Siberia, Russia, with industrial equipment and trees in the background.
Yakut reindeer herders journeying through Siberia
Siberian Yakut nomads and their reindeer herds
Map of northern Eurasia showing the route of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in green, running from Moscow in western Russia across Siberia to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. The map also marks the Trans-Manchurian Railroad in yellow, the Trans-Mongolian Railroad in purple, and the Baikal-Amur line in red, with major cities and international borders labeled. An inset map shows the railroad's location within Europe and Asia. Rails and snow Mount Belukha Lake surrounded by dense evergreen forest and grassy wetlands in the taiga of Altai, Russia, with rocks in the foreground and a blue sky above.
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Siberia

region, Asia
Also known as: Sibir
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Siberia, vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan, constituting all of northern Asia. Siberia extends from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east and southward from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and the borders of Mongolia and China. All but the extreme southwestern area of Siberia lies in Russia. In Russian usage the administrative areas on the eastern flank of the Urals, along the Pacific...

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