North Asia

region, Asia

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major reference

  • A map of the continent of Asia, including its countries, boundaries, and capital cities, as well as parts of Europe, Africa, and surrounding oceans.
    In Asia: North Asia

    Northeastern Siberia comprises faulted and folded mountains of moderate height, such as the Verkhoyansk, Chersky, and Okhotsk-Chaun mountain arcs, all Mesozoic structures that have been rejuvenated by geologically recent tectonic events. The Koryak Mountains are similar but have a Cenozoic origin. Volcanic activity…

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geographic pattern of vegetation

  • A map of the continent of Asia, including its countries, boundaries, and capital cities, as well as parts of Europe, Africa, and surrounding oceans.
    In Asia: North and Central Asia

    The natural landscape has been least affected by people in sparsely populated North Asia. Vast plains, continentality, and the nearness of the Arctic Ocean explain the presence there of a zone of tundra—cold-tolerant low-lying vegetation in an area of permafrost (permanently

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shamanism

  • Mudang in South Korea
    In shamanism

    …phenomena of the peoples of northern Asia and the Ural-Altaic, such as the Khanty and Mansi, Samoyed, Tungus, Yukaghir, Chukchi, and

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