North Asia

Subregion of Asia

Not to be confused with Siberia.

North Asia

Area| 13,100,000 km2 (5,100,000 sq mi)
Population| 37 million (2021 census)
Population density| 2.6 per km2 (7.4 per mi2)
GDP (PPP)| $1.3 trillion (2022)
GDP (nominal)| $600 billion (2022)[1]
GDP per capita| $16,000 (2022)
Ethnic groups| Majority Slavic
Minority Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic, and other indigenous peoples of Siberia
Religions| Majority Orthodox Christian
Demonym| Siberian, North Asian
Countries|  Russia
Languages|

Official languages

* Russian

Other languages

* Ainu
* Chukotko-Kamchatkan
* Eskimo–Aleut
* Mongolic
* Tungusic
* Turkic
* Uralic
* Yeniseian
* Yukaghir
* Others

Time zones|

8 time zones

* UTC+5 / MSK+2
* UTC+6 / MSK+3
* UTC+7 / MSK+4
* UTC+8 / MSK+5
* UTC+9 / MSK+6
* UTC+10 / MSK+7
* UTC+11 / MSK+8
* UTC+12 / MSK+9

Internet TLD| .ru
Calling code| Zone 7
Largest cities|

List

* Barnaul
* Chelyabinsk
* Irkutsk
* Kemerovo
* Khabarovsk
* Krasnoyarsk
* Novokuznetsk
* Novosibirsk (largest)
* Omsk
* Tomsk
* Tyumen
* Vladivostok
* Yakutsk
* Yekaterinburg
* Chita

UN M49 code| `151` – Eastern Europe
`150` – Europe
`001` – World
North Asia

Russian name
Russian| Северная Азия
Romanization| Severnaya Aziya

North Asia or Northern Asia (Russian: 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 13,100,000 square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), 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.

Geographically, North Asia is a subregion of Asia. 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. Consequently, some international organisations classify North Asia as part of Eastern Europe along with European Russia, rather than as a part of Asia. European cultural influences, specifically Russian, are predominant in the entire region, due to it experiencing Russian emigration from Europe starting from the 16th century.[2] 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.[3][4] Whereas the indigenous peoples comprise only about 5% of the North Asian population.[5]

## History

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Further information: History of human settlement in the Ural Mountains, History of Siberia, and Outer Manchuria

Map of Northern Asia in 1921

The region was first populated by hominins in the Late Pleistocene, approximately 100,000 years ago,[6] and modern humans are confirmed to arrived in the region by 45,000 years ago[7][8] with the first humans in the region having West Eurasian origins.[9]

Its Neolithic culture is characterized by characteristic stone production techniques and the presence of pottery of eastern origin.[9] The Bronze Age began during the 3rd millennium BCE,[10] 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.

### History of North Asia (1923–2025)

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#### Soviet Consolidation and Conflict (1923–1945)

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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.[11]

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.[a]

#### Cold War Industrialization (1945–1991)

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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.[b]

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.[12]

#### Post-Soviet Transition and Modern Era (1991–2025)

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With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Eastern Russia faced economic turmoil and depopulation. Many towns built around single industries experienced sharp decline.[13]

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.[14]

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.[15]

## Geography

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See also: Geography of Siberia

Further information: Geography of Russia § Northeast Siberia and Kamchatka

Kamchatka Peninsula 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.[16]

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.[17] Western Siberia is usually regarded as the Northwest Asia, Kazakhstan also sometimes included there. However, Northwest Asia sometimes refers to the South Caucasus or its nearby areas.[citation needed]

### Geomorphology

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Further information: Geology of Asia and Geology of Russia

The geomorphology of Northern Asia in general is imperfectly known, although the deposits and mountain ranges are well known.[17]

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.[17]

Northern 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 plateaux 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.[17]

There are three main periods of mountain building in Northern 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 plateaux, 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 Dzungarian basins.[17]

Gulf of Ob

Novaya Zemlya

Kara Sea

Yenisey

Taymyr Peninsula

Severnaya Zemlya

Arctic Ocean

Central Siberian Plateau

Siberian Federal District

Lena

Sakha Republic

Laptev Sea

New Siberian Islands

Kolyma

Verkhoyansk Range

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Urals Federal District

Kazakhstan

Irtysh

Altai

Tian Shan

Syr Darya

Taklamakan

Himalayas

Pamir

Hindukush

Tibetan

Lake Baikal

Mongolia

Gobi

North China Plain

Yangtze Plain

Plateau

Stanovoy Range

Manchuria

Korea

Sakhalin

Amur

Sea of Okhotsk

Japan

Pacific

Physical map of Northern Asia
(with parts of Central and East Asia)

Northern 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 River and the Lena River. 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.[17]

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.[17]

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.[17]

## Demographics

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Further information: Demographics of Siberia, Indigenous peoples of Siberia, and Demographics of the Russian Far East

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.[18] 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.[19] Other ethnic groups that live in the region and make a significant portion include ethnic Germans numbering about 400,000.[20]

In 1875, Chambers reported the population of North Asia to be 8 million.[16] Between 1801 and 1914, an estimated 7 million settlers moved from European Russia to Siberia, 85% during the quarter-century before World War I.[21]

Largest cities or towns in North Asia

[22] 2010 Census[23]

Rank  |  | Region  | Pop.
1 | Novosibirsk | Siberia | 1,633,595
2 | Yekaterinburg | Ural (region) | 1,544,376
3 | Chelyabinsk | Ural (region) | 1,189,525
4 | Krasnoyarsk | Siberia | 1,187,771
5 | Omsk | Siberia | 1,125,695
6 | Tyumen | Ural (region) | 847,488
7 | Barnaul | Siberia | 630,877
8 | Khabarovsk | Russian Far East | 617,441
9 | Irkutsk | Siberia | 617,264
10 | Vladivostok | Russian Far East | 603,519

## Administration

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Subdivisions of Asian Russia (Siberia) Federal Subjects  | Capital  | Area
km2 | Population
2010

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Kurgan Oblast | Kurgan | 71,000  | 910,807
Sverdlovsk Oblast | Yekaterinburg | 194,800  | 4,297,747
Tyumen Oblast | Tyumen | 143,520  | 3,395,755
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Yugra) | Khanty-Mansiysk | 534,800  | 1,532,243
Chelyabinsk Oblast | Chelyabinsk | 87,900  | 3,476,217
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug | Salekhard | 750,300  | 522,904
Ural Federal District | Yekaterinburg | 1,818,500  | 12,080,526
Altai Republic | Gorno-Altaysk | 92,900  | 206,168
Altai Krai | Barnaul | 168,000  | 2,419,755
Irkutsk Oblast | Irkutsk | 774,800  | 2,248,750
Kemerovo Oblast | Kemerovo | 95,700  | 2,763,135
Krasnoyarsk Krai | Krasnoyarsk | 2,366,800  | 2,828,187
Novosibirsk Oblast | Novosibirsk | 177,800  | 2,665,911
Omsk Oblast | Omsk | 141,100  | 1,977,665
Tomsk Oblast | Tomsk | 314,400  | 1,047,394
Tuva Republic | Kyzyl | 168,600  | 307,930
Republic of Khakassia | Abakan | 61,600  | 532,403
Siberian Federal District | Novosibirsk | 4,361,800  | 17,178,298
Amur Oblast | Blagoveshchensk | 361,900  | 830,103
Republic of Buryatia | Ulan-Ude | 351,300  | 971,021
Jewish Autonomous Oblast | Birobidzhan | 36,300  | 176,558
Zabaykalsky Krai | Chita | 431,900  | 1,107,107
Kamchatka Krai | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | 464,300  | 322,079
Magadan Oblast | Magadan | 462,500  | 156,996
Primorsky Krai | Vladivostok | 164,700  | 1,956,497
Sakha Republic | Yakutsk | 3,083,500  | 958,528
Sakhalin Oblast | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 87,100  | 497,973
Khabarovsk Krai | Khabarovsk | 787,600  | 1,343,869
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | Anadyr | 721,500  | 50,526
Far Eastern Federal District | Vladivostok | 6,952,600  | 8,371,257
North Asia | –  | 13,132,900  | 37,630,081

## See also

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* Asia portal
* Geography portal
* Russia portal
* Siberia portal

* Arctic Region
* Far North
* European Russia
* Asia
* Geography of Asia
* Northeast Asia
* Russian Far East
* Ural region
* Siberian High, a semipermament anticyclone

## Notes

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1. ^ See Soviet–Japanese border conflicts for further information
2. ^ See History of Siberia for further information

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## External links

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* Media related to North Asia at Wikimedia Commons

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Regions of Asia

Central
(The 'stans)|

* Roof of the World
* Greater Middle East
* Aral Sea
* Aralkum Desert
* Caspian Sea
* Dead Sea
* Sea of Galilee
* Tartary
* Transoxiana
* Turan
* Greater Khorasan
* Ariana
* Arachosia
* Khwarazm
* Sistan
* Kazakhstania
* Kazakh Steppe
* Betpak-Dala
* Eurasian Steppe
* Kazakh Steppe
* Mongolian–Manchurian grassland
* Iranian plateau
* Altai Mountains
* Pamir Mountains
* Tian Shan
* Badakhshan
* Wakhan Corridor
* Wakhjir Pass
* Mount Imeon
* Mongolian Plateau
* Western Regions
* Taklamakan Desert
* Karakoram
* Trans-Karakoram Tract
* Siachen Glacier
* Tibetan Plateau

East
(Northeast)|

* Orient
* Japanese Archipelago
* Northeastern Japan Arc
* Sakhalin Island Arc
* Korea
* Gobi Desert
* Taklamakan Desert
* Greater Khingan
* Mongolian Plateau
* Inner Asia
* Greater Central Asia
* Inner Mongolia
* Outer Mongolia
* China proper
* Manchuria
* Northeast China
* Northeast China Plain
* Outer Manchuria
* Mongolian–Manchurian grassland
* North China Plain
* Yan Mountains
* Liaodong Peninsula
* High-mountain Asia
* Himalayas
* Tibetan Plateau
* Karakoram
* Kunlun Mountains
* Qilian Mountains
* Hengduan Mountains
* Tarim Basin
* Qinling Mountains
* Sichuan Basin
* Northern Silk Road
* Hexi Corridor
* Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau
* Lingnan
* Liangguang
* Jiangnan
* Jianghuai
* Guanzhong
* Huizhou
* Wu
* Jiaozhou
* Zhongyuan
* Shaannan
* Ordos Loop
* Loess Plateau
* Shaanbei
* Hamgyong Mountains
* Central Mountain Range
* Japanese Alps
* Suzuka Mountains
* Leizhou Peninsula
* Gulf of Tonkin
* Yangtze
* Yangtze Delta
* Yellow River
* Pearl River Delta
* Yenisei Basin
* Altai Mountains
* Wakhan Corridor
* Wakhjir Pass
* Far East/Pacific Asia
* Ring of Fire
* Asia–Pacific
* Tropical Asia

North
(Siberia)|

* Arctic
* Arctic Circle
* Inner Asia
* Northeast
* Ural
* Ural Mountains
* Far East/Pacific Asia
* Russian Far East
* Okhotsk–Manchurian taiga
* Beringia
* Chukchi Peninsula
* Kamchatka Peninsula
* Extreme North
* Tartary
* Siberia
* Baikalia (Lake Baikal)
* Baraba steppe
* Khatanga Gulf
* Transbaikal
* West
* Amur Basin
* Yenisei Gulf
* Yenisei Basin
* Sikhote-Alin
* Kolyma
* Bering Strait
* Ring of Fire
* Outer Manchuria
* Asia–Pacific

Southeast
(East Indies)|

* Orient
* Sundaland
* Mainland/Indochina
* Northern Triangle temperate forests
* Maritime/Malay Archipelago
* Peninsular Malaysia
* Sunda Islands
* Greater Sunda Islands
* Lesser Sunda Islands
* Indonesian Archipelago/Nusantara
* Wallacea
* Timor
* Philippine Archipelago
* Luzon
* Mindanao
* Visayas
* Leyte Gulf
* Gulf of Thailand
* East Indies
* Nanyang
* Alpide belt
* Far East/Pacific Asia
* Ring of Fire
* Asia–Pacific
* Tropical Asia

South
(Indian
Subcontinent)|

* Subregions
* Eastern
* Northern
* Northwestern
* Southern
* Orient
* Greater India
* Indian subcontinent
* Himalayas
* Kangchenjunga
* Nanda Devi
* Hindu Kush
* Bactria
* Carnatic region
* Tamilakam
* Western Ghats
* Eastern Ghats
* Ganges Basin
* Ganges Delta
* Guzgan
* Pashtunistan
* Punjab
* Balochistan
* Gedrosia
* Makran
* Marathwada
* Kashmir
* Kashmir Valley
* Pir Panjal Range
* Thar Desert
* Indus Valley
* Indus River Delta
* Indus Valley Desert
* Indo-Gangetic Plain
* Eastern Coastal Plains
* Kalinga
* Western Coastal Plains
* Meghalaya subtropical forests
* Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
* Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
* Doab
* Bagar tract
* Great Rann of Kutch
* Little Rann of Kutch
* Deccan Plateau
* Coromandel Coast
* Konkan
* False Divi Point
* Hindi Belt
* Ladakh
* Aksai Chin
* Gilgit-Baltistan
* Baltistan
* Shigar Valley
* High-mountain Asia
* Karakoram
* Saltoro Mountains
* Siachen Glacier
* Bengal
* Bay of Bengal
* Gulf of Khambhat
* Gulf of Kutch
* Halar
* Gulf of Mannar
* Palk Strait
* Trans-Karakoram Tract
* Wakhan Corridor
* Wakhjir Pass
* Lakshadweep
* Laccadive Islands
* Aminidivi
* Paropamisadae
* Andaman and Nicobar Islands
* Andaman Islands
* Nicobar Islands
* Maldives
* Alpide belt
* Asia–Pacific
* Tropical Asia
* Tibetan Plateau

West
(Middle East and
South Caucasus)|

* Red Sea
* Hanish Islands
* Caspian Sea
* Mediterranean Sea
* Zagros Mountains
* Elam
* Persian Gulf
* Pirate Coast
* Strait of Hormuz
* Greater and Lesser Tunbs
* Al-Faw Peninsula
* Gulf of Oman
* Gulf of Aqaba
* Gulf of Aden
* Balochistan
* Arabian Peninsula
* Najd
* Al-Yamama
* Hejaz
* Tihamah
* Eastern Arabia
* South Arabia
* Hadhramaut
* Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert
* Al-Sharat
* Tigris–Euphrates
* Mesopotamia
* Upper Mesopotamia
* Lower Mesopotamia
* Sawad
* Nineveh Plains
* Akkad (region)
* Babylonia
* Suhum
* Eastern Mediterranean
* Mashriq
* Eber-Nari
* Kurdistan
* Levant
* Levantine corridor
* Syria region
* Palestine region
* Transjordan
* Jordan Rift Valley
* Philistia
* Golan Heights
* Hula Valley
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