Central Asia is a region in Asia. There are different definitions of exactly what Central Asia includes. A delimitation which covers 9,029,000 km 2 or 21% of Asia’s area, says: KAZAKHSTAN (Asian part) CHINA (Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces) KYRGYZSTAN MONGOLIA TAJIKISTAN TIBET (part of China according to the UN) TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN Another delimitation (used by UNESCO) is: AFGHANISTAN (parts of) INDIA (parts of) IRAN (northeast) CHINA (westernmost parts and Xinjiang)…
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Literature Like other Central Asian literature, the Kyrgyz also has its roots in the poetry of acynes (folk songs) with its lamentations and didactic pieces. Here there is a rich treasure of fairy tales, legends and proverbs, but above all the great epic about the national hero Manas, comprising more than 500,000 rows (recorded in excerpts first in 1856). Notably, among the Kyrgyz acynes was Toktogul Satylganov, one of the…
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Kyrgyzstan climate The climate in Kyrgyzstan is continental: the summers are dry and hot, the winters cold. The temperature fluctuations during the day are high. In the southern part of the country, temperatures of up to 45 °C can be measured in summer. The typical summer highs are around 30 ° C, which drop to 15 °C at night. In winter the temperatures are around 0 ° C, but can…
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