North Asia

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{{Infobox Chinese | rus = Северная Азия | rusr = Severnaya Aziya }}

'''North Asia''' or '''Northern Asia''' ({{langx|ru|Северная Азия}}) is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographical terms and consists of three federal districts of Russia: Ural, Siberian, and the Far Eastern. North Asia is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to its north; by Eastern Europe to its west; by Central Asia and East Asia to its south; and by the Pacific Ocean and Northern America to its east. It covers an area of {{Convert|13,100,000|km2|sqmi}}, or 8.8% of Earth's total land area; and is the largest subregion of Asia by area, occupying approx. 29.4% of Asia's land area, but is also the least populated, with a population of around 37 million, accounting for merely 0.74% of Asia's population.

Topographically, the region is dominated by the Eurasian Plate, except for its eastern part, which lies on the North American, Amurian, and Okhotsk Plates. It is divided by three major plains: the West Siberian Plain, Central Siberian Plateau, and Verhoyansk-Chukotka collision zone. The Uralian orogeny in the west raised Ural Mountains, the informal boundary between Asia and Europe. Tectonic and volcanic activities are frequently occurred in the eastern part of the region as part of the Ring of Fire, evidenced by the formation of island arcs such as the Kuril Islands and ultra-prominent peaks such as Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Kronotsky, and Koryaksky. The central part of North Asia is a large igneous province called the Siberian Traps, formed by a massive eruption which occurred 250 million years ago. The formation of the traps coincided with the Permian–Triassic extinction event.

Historically, it has been home to various East Asian-related ethnic groups from a diverse range of language families, including the Ainu, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Mongolic, Nivkh, Tungusic, Turkic, Uralic, Yeniseian, Yukaghir, and Eskaleut peoples. However, due to the Russian conquest of Siberia, the entirety of North Asia was colonised and incorporated into Russia. European cultural influences, specifically Russian, are predominant in the entire region, due to it experiencing Russian emigration from Europe starting from the 16th century.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YKPaLi1d1O4C&q=russian+culture|title=Siberia: A Cultural History|last=Haywood|first=A. J.|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-975418-2|language=en}}</ref> Slavs and other Indo-Europeans make up the vast majority of North Asia's population, and over 85% of the region's population is of European descent,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/result-december-2011.ppt |title=ВПН-2010 |website=Perepis-2010.ru |access-date=2016-04-03 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118212344/http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/result-december-2011.ppt |archive-date=2012-01-18 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/perepis_itogi1612.htm |title=ВПН-2010 |website=Gks.ru |access-date=2016-04-03}}</ref> whereas the Indigenous peoples comprise only about 5% of the North Asian population.<ref name=census2021>{{cite web|title=Национальный состав населения|url=https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/Tom5_tab1_VPN-2020.xlsx|publisher=Federal State Statistics Service|access-date=30 December 2022}}</ref>

==History== {{Further|History of human settlement in the Ural Mountains|History of Siberia|Outer Manchuria}} thumb|Map of Northern Asia in 1921

===Antiquity and pre-colonization=== The region was first populated by hominins in the Late Pleistocene, approximately 100,000 years ago,<ref name="Slon">{{cite journal | vauthors = Slon V, Viola B, Renaud G, Gansauge M, Benazzi S, Sawyer S, Hublin J, Shunkov MV, Derevianko AP, Kelso J, Prüfer K, Meyer M, Pääbo S | title = A fourth Denisovan individual | journal = Science Advances | volume = 3 | issue = 7 | article-number = e1700186 | date = July 2017 | pmid = 28695206 | pmc = 5501502 | doi = 10.1126/sciadv.1700186 | bibcode = 2017SciA....3E0186S }}</ref> and modern humans are confirmed to arrived in the region by 45,000 years ago<ref name="SciAm">{{cite web| url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/45-000-year-old-mans-genome-sequenced/ |title= 45,000-Year-Old Man's Genome Sequenced| author= Callaway, Ewen & Nature magazine |website=Scientific American |date= 23 October 2014|access-date= 24 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|date=October 23, 2014 |title= Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia |journal=Nature |volume=514 |issue= 7523 |pages= 445–49 |doi= 10.1038/nature13810 |pmid=25341783 |pmc=4753769 |last1=Fu |first1=Q |last2=Li |first2=H |last3=Moorjani |first3=P |last4=Jay |first4=F |last5=Slepchenko |first5=SM |last6=Bondarev |first6=AA |last7=Johnson |first7=PL |last8=Aximu-Petri |first8=A |last9=Prüfer |first9=K |last10=de Filippo |first10=C |last11=Meyer |first11=M |last12=Zwyns |first12=N |last13=Salazar-García |first13=DC |last14=Kuzmin |first14=YV |last15=Keates |first15=SG |last16=Kosintsev |first16=PA |last17=Razhev |first17=DI |last18=Richards |first18=MP |last19=Peristov |first19=NV |last20=Lachmann |first20=M |last21=Douka |first21=K |last22=Higham |first22=TF |last23=Slatkin |first23=M |last24=Hublin |first24=JJ |last25=Reich |first25=D |last26=Kelso |first26=J |last27=Viola |first27=TB |last28=Pääbo |first28=S |bibcode= 2014Natur.514..445F}}</ref> with the first humans in the region having West Eurasian origins.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Kılınç|first1=Gülşah Merve|last2=Kashuba|first2=Natalija|last3=Yaka|first3=Reyhan|last4=Sümer|first4=Arev Pelin|last5=Yüncü|first5=Eren|last6=Shergin|first6=Dmitrij|last7=Ivanov|first7=Grigorij Leonidovich|last8=Kichigin|first8=Dmitrii|last9=Pestereva|first9=Kjunnej|date=2018-06-12|title=Investigating Holocene human population history in North Asia using ancient mitogenomes|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=8|issue=1|page=8969|doi=10.1038/s41598-018-27325-0|issn=2045-2322|pmc=5997703|pmid=29895902|bibcode=2018NatSR...8.8969K}}</ref>

Its Neolithic culture is characterized by characteristic stone production techniques and the presence of pottery of eastern origin.<ref name=":0" /> The Bronze Age began during the 3rd millennium BCE,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dupuy|first=Paula Doumani|title=Online Only -- Archaeology |date=2016-06-02|chapter=Bronze Age Central Asia|chapter-url=http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935413-e-15|language=en|doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.013.15|isbn=978-0-19-993541-3}}</ref> with influences of Indo-Iranian cultures as evidenced by the Andronovo culture. During the 1st millennium BCE, polities such as the Scythians and Xiongnus emerged in the region, who often clashed with its Persian and Chinese neighbors in the south.

The Göktürks dominated southern Siberia during the 1st millennium CE, while in the early 2nd millennium, the Mongol Empire and its successor states ruled the region. The Khanate of Sibir was one of the last independent Turkic states in North Asia before its conquest by the Tsardom of Russia in the 16th century. Russia would then gradually annex the region into its territory until the Convention of Peking was signed in 1860.

===Soviet consolidation and conflict=== Following the Russian Civil War, the Soviet Union solidified control over Siberia and the Russian Far East. The Far Eastern Republic, which had served as a buffer state, was dissolved and absorbed by the Russian SFSR in 1922, officially bringing the region under Soviet authority by 1923.<ref>{{cite web |title=Far Eastern Republic |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Far-Eastern-Republic |website=Britannica |access-date=2025-05-22}}</ref>

Throughout the 1930s, the Soviet Union fortified the region militarily due to increasing tensions with Japan. The Soviet–Japanese border conflicts culminated in the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in 1939, where Soviet General Georgy Zhukov led a decisive victory over Japanese forces, leading to the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact in 1941.{{efn|See Soviet–Japanese border conflicts for further information}}

===Cold War industrialization=== After World War II, North Asia played a critical role in Soviet industrialization and military strategy. Major industrial centers were developed in Norilsk, Novosibirsk, and Irkutsk, supported by labor from the Gulag system.{{efn|See History of Siberia for further information}}

The Trans-Siberian Railway, which spanned from Moscow to Vladivostok, became vital for transporting natural resources such as timber, coal, and metals to western parts of the USSR.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trans-Siberian Railway |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Siberian-Railroad |website=Britannica |access-date=2025-05-22}}</ref>

===Post-Soviet era=== With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, North Asia faced economic turmoil and depopulation. Many towns built around single industries experienced sharp decline.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Siberian Exodus |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/15/the-siberian-exodus-a75506 |website=The Moscow Times |access-date=2025-05-22}}</ref>

In the 2000s and 2010s, the region gained strategic importance due to its vast reserves of natural gas, oil, and mineral resources. Russia began expanding infrastructure such as the Power of Siberia gas pipeline to China, marking a strategic pivot to Asia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Russia's Power of Siberia pipeline opens new era in energy exports |url=https://www.ft.com/content/50e0fdec-15bb-11ea-8d73-6303645ac406 |website=Financial Times |access-date=2025-05-22}}</ref>

As of the 2020s, the Russian government continues efforts to develop the Russian Far East through the "Far Eastern Hectare" program and special economic zones, though progress remains mixed due to geographic challenges and demographic decline.<ref>{{cite web |title=Russia's Far East: Empty Land, Empty Promises |url=https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/05/01/russia-s-far-east-empty-land-empty-promises-pub-89560 |website=Carnegie Endowment |access-date=2025-05-22}}</ref>

==Geography== {{See also|Geography of Siberia}} {{Further|Geography of Russia#Northeast Siberia and Kamchatka}} [[File:Koryaksky Volcano (24026021905).jpg|thumb|Kamchatka Peninsula]] [[File:Тишина озера Дюпкун.jpg|thumb|Putorana Plateau]]

For geographical and statistical reasons, the United Nations geoscheme and various other classification schemes will not subdivide countries, and thus place all of Russia in Europe or the Eastern Europe subregion. There are no mountain chains in North Asia to prevent air currents from the Arctic flowing down over the plains of Siberia and Turkestan.<ref name="Chambers">{{cite book|title=Chambers's Information for the People|url=https://archive.org/details/chamberssinform02chamgoog|author=William Chambers and Robert Chambers|publisher=W. & R. Chambers|year=1875|location=London and Edinburgh|pages=274–276|isbn=978-0-665-46914-5 }}</ref>

The plateau and plains of North Asia comprise the West Siberian Lowlands; the Angara Shield, with the Taymyr Peninsula, the coastal lowlands (the East Siberian Lowland and the North Siberian Lowland), and the Central Siberian Plateau (the Anabar Plateau, the Lena Plateau, the Lena-Angara Plateau, the Putorana Plateau, the Tunguska Plateau, and the Vilyuy Plateau); and the Central Yakutian Lowland.<ref name="Bridges">{{cite book |author=Edwin Michael Bridges |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/worldgeomorpholo0000brid/page/124/mode/2up |title=World Geomorphology |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-521-28965-8 |pages=124–126 |chapter=Northern Asia |chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> Western Siberia is usually regarded as the Northwest Asia, Kazakhstan also sometimes included there.

===Geomorphology=== {{Further|Geology of Asia|Geology of Russia}}

The geomorphology of North Asia in general is imperfectly known, although the deposits and mountain ranges are well known.<ref name="Bridges" />

To compensate for new sea floor having been created in the Siberian basin, the whole of the Eurasian Plate has pivoted about a point in the New Siberian Islands, causing compression in the Verkhoyansk mountains, which were formed along the eastern margin of the Angara Shield by tectonic uplift during the Mesozoic Era. There is a southern boundary to this across the northern margin of the Alpine folds of Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Bhutan, which at the east of Brahmaputra turns to run south towards the Bay of Bengal along the line of the Naga Hills and the Arakan Yoma, continues around Indonesia, and follows the edge of the continental shelf along the eastern seaboard of China. The Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate meet across the neck of Alaska, following the line of the Aleutian Trench, rather than meeting at the Bering Straits.<ref name="Bridges" />

North Asia is built around the Angara Shield, which lies between the Yenisey River and the Lena River. It developed from fragments of Laurasia, whose rocks were mainly Precambrian crystalline rocks, gneisses, and schists, and Gondwana. These rocks can be found in the Angara Shield, Inner Mongolian-Korean Shield, Ordes Shield, and Southeast Asia Shield. The fragments have been subject to orogenesis around their margins, giving a complex of plateaus and mountain ranges. One can find outcrops of these rocks in unfolded sections of the Shields. Their presence has been confirmed below Mesozoic and later sediments.<ref name="Bridges" />

There are three main periods of mountain building in North Asia, although it has occurred many times. The outer fold mountains that are on the margins of the Shields and that only affected Asia north of the line of the Himalayas, are attributed to the Caledonian and Hercynian orogenies of the late Palaeozoic Era. The Alpine orogeny caused extensive folding and faulting of Mesozoic and early Tertiary sediments from the Tethys geosyncline. The Tibetan and Mongolian Plateaus, and the structural basins of Tarim, Qaidam, and Junggar, are delimited by major east–west lithospheric faults that were probably the results of stresses caused by the impact of the Indian Plate against Laurasia. Erosion of the mountains caused by this orogeny has created a large amount of sediment, which has been transported southwards to produce the alluvial plains of India, China, and Cambodia, and which has also been deposited in large amounts in the Tarim and Junggar basins.<ref name="Bridges" />

{{Physical map of Siberia|width=200}} North Asia was glaciated in the Pleistocene, but this played a less significant part in the geology of the area compared to the part that it played in North America and Europe. The Scandinavian ice sheet extended to the east of the Urals, covering the northern two thirds of the Ob Basin and extending onto the Angara Shield between the Yenisei and Lena Rivers. There are legacies of mountain glaciation to be found on the east Siberian mountains, on the mountains of the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the Altai, on Tian Shan, and on other small areas of mountains, ice caps remain on the islands of Severnaya Zemlya and Novaya Zemlya, and several Central Asian mountains still have individual glaciers. North Asia itself has permafrost, ranging in depths from 30 to 600 metres and covering an area of 9.6 million km2.<ref name="Bridges" />

Several of the mountainous regions are volcanic, with both the Koryak Mountains and the Kamchatka Peninsula having active volcanoes. The Anadyr Plateau is formed from igneous rocks. The Mongolian Plateau has an area of basaltic lavas and volcanic cones.<ref name="Bridges" />

The Angara Shield also underlies the lowlands of the Ob River, but to the south and east in the Central Asian Mountains and in the East Siberian Mountains there are folded and faulted mountains of Lower Palaeozoic rocks.<ref name="Bridges" />

==Demographics== {{Further|Demographics of Siberia|Indigenous peoples of Siberia|Demographics of the Russian Far East}} [[File:125 - Wladiwostok 2015 (24056935489).jpg|thumb|260px|Russians in Vladivostok, on Russia's Pacific Coast]]

Most estimates are that there are around 33 million Russian citizens living east of the Ural Mountains, a widely recognized geographical divide between Europe and Asia. Of these Russian citizens of Siberia, most are Slavic-origin Russians and Russified Ukrainians.<ref>"[http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2003/180304.shtml Ukrainians in Russia's Far East try to maintain community life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051255/http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/2003/180304.shtml |date=2016-03-04 }}". ''The Ukrainian Weekly''. 4 May 2003.</ref> The Turkic peoples who are native to some parts of Siberia and native Tungusic and Mongolic peoples are now a minority in North Asia due to the Russification process during the last three centuries. Russian census records indicate they make up only an estimated 10% of the region's population, with the largest being the Buryats numbering at 445,175, and the Yakuts at 443,852. According to the 2002 census, there are 500,000 Tatars in Siberia, but 300,000 of them are Volga Tatars who settled in Siberia during periods of colonization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newasp.omskreg.ru/hist/fotatlas/rezumeen.htm|title=Фотоатлас "Сибирские татары"|date=February 27, 2002|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020227012304/http://newasp.omskreg.ru/hist/fotatlas/rezumeen.htm|archive-date=2002-02-27}}</ref> Other ethnic groups that live in the region and make a significant portion include ethnic Germans numbering about 400,000.<ref>{{cite news |title=Siberian Germans |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/siberian-germans |work=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

In 1875, Chambers reported the population of North Asia to be 8 million.<ref name="Chambers" /> Between 1801 and 1914, an estimated 7 million settlers moved from European Russia to Siberia, 85% during the quarter-century before World War I.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/1848991|jstor=1848991|last1=Fisher|first1=Raymond H.|title=Reviewed work: The Great Siberian Migration: Government and Peasant in Resettlement from Emancipation to the First World War, Donald W. Treadgold|journal=The American Historical Review|year=1958|volume=63|issue=4|pages=989–990|doi=10.2307/1848991|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

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==Administration== thumb|Subdivisions of Asian Russia (Siberia)

The area of North Asia is 13,132,900 km2 and the population in 2010 was 37,630,081.

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+Ural Federal District ! Federal Subjects ! Capital ! Area (km2) ! Population (2010) |- | 50px|border Kurgan Oblast | Kurgan | style="text-align:right;"|71,000 | style="text-align:right;"|910,807 |- | 50px|border Sverdlovsk Oblast | Yekaterinburg | style="text-align:right;"|194,800 | style="text-align:right;"|4,297,747 |- | 50px|border Tyumen Oblast | Tyumen | style="text-align:right;"|143,520 | style="text-align:right;"|3,395,755 |- | 50px|border Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Yugra) | Khanty-Mansiysk | style="text-align:right;"|534,800 | style="text-align:right;"|1,532,243 |- | 50px|border Chelyabinsk Oblast | Chelyabinsk | style="text-align:right;"|87,900 | style="text-align:right;"|3,476,217 |- | 50px|border Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug | Salekhard | style="text-align:right;"|750,300 | style="text-align:right;"|522,904 |- |Total | Yekaterinburg | style="text-align:right;"|1,818,500 | style="text-align:right;"|12,080,526 |}

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+Siberian Federal District ! Federal Subjects ! Capital ! Area (km2) ! Population (2010) |- | 50px|border Altai Republic | Gorno-Altaysk | style="text-align:right;"|92,900 | style="text-align:right;"|206,168 |- | 50px|border Altai Krai | Barnaul | style="text-align:right;"|168,000 | style="text-align:right;"|2,419,755 |- | 50px|border Irkutsk Oblast | Irkutsk | style="text-align:right;"|774,800 | style="text-align:right;"|2,248,750 |- | 50px|border Kemerovo Oblast | Kemerovo | style="text-align:right;"|95,700 | style="text-align:right;"|2,763,135 |- | 50px|border Krasnoyarsk Krai | Krasnoyarsk | style="text-align:right;"|2,366,800 | style="text-align:right;"|2,828,187 |- | 50px|border Novosibirsk Oblast | Novosibirsk | style="text-align:right;"|177,800 | style="text-align:right;"|2,665,911 |- | 50px|border Omsk Oblast | Omsk | style="text-align:right;"|141,100 | style="text-align:right;"|1,977,665 |- | 50px|border Tomsk Oblast | Tomsk | style="text-align:right;"|314,400 | style="text-align:right;"|1,047,394 |- | 50px|border Tuva Republic | Kyzyl | style="text-align:right;"|168,600 | style="text-align:right;"|307,930 |- | 50px|border Republic of Khakassia | Abakan | style="text-align:right;"|61,600 | style="text-align:right;"|532,403 |- | Total | Novosibirsk | style="text-align:right;"|4,361,800 | style="text-align:right;"|17,178,298 |}

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+Far Eastern Federal District ! Federal Subjects ! Capital ! Area (km2) ! Population (2010) |- | 50px|border Amur Oblast | Blagoveshchensk | style="text-align:right;"|361,900 | style="text-align:right;"|830,103 |- | border|50px Republic of Buryatia | Ulan-Ude | style="text-align:right;"|351,300 | style="text-align:right;"|971,021 |- | 50px|border Jewish Autonomous Oblast | Birobidzhan | style="text-align:right;"|36,300 | style="text-align:right;"|176,558 |- |border|50px Zabaykalsky Krai |Chita |align="right"|431,900 |align="right"|1,107,107 |- | 50px|border Kamchatka Krai | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | style="text-align:right;"|464,300 | style="text-align:right;"|322,079 |- | 50px|border Magadan Oblast | Magadan | style="text-align:right;"|462,500 | style="text-align:right;"|156,996 |- | 50px|border Primorsky Krai | Vladivostok | style="text-align:right;"|164,700 | style="text-align:right;"|1,956,497 |- | 50px|border Sakha Republic | Yakutsk | style="text-align:right;"|3,083,500 | style="text-align:right;"|958,528 |- | 50px|border Sakhalin Oblast | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | style="text-align:right;"|87,100 | style="text-align:right;"|497,973 |- | 50px|border Khabarovsk Krai | Khabarovsk | style="text-align:right;"|787,600 | style="text-align:right;"|1,343,869 |- | 50px|border Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | Anadyr | style="text-align:right;"|721,500 | style="text-align:right;"|50,526 |- |Total | Vladivostok | style="text-align:right;"|6,952,600 | style="text-align:right;"|8,371,257 |}

==See also== {{Portal|Asia|Geography|Russia|Siberia}}   * Arctic Region * Far North * European Russia * Asia * Geography of Asia * Northeast Asia * Russian Far East * Ural region * Siberian High, a semipermament anticyclone

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