. Europe and other continents . Fig. Persian nomad girl. 378 ASIA Russia in Asia. — This vast section of the RussianEmpire includes about one-eighth of the land surface ofthe globe. There are several divisions, such as Turkes-tan and the dependencies of Bokhara and Khiva ; but byfar the largest is Siberia, which is a million square mileslarger than Europe, and even larger than the UnitedStates, Mexico, and Central America combined. Yet ithas less than one-twelfth as many inhabitants as theUnited States Fig. wedding procession passing through a street in Teheran. The climati
. Europe and other continents . Fig. Persian nomad girl. 378 ASIA Russia in Asia. — This vast section of the RussianEmpire includes about one-eighth of the land surface ofthe globe. There are several divisions, such as Turkes-tan and the dependencies of Bokhara and Khiva ; but byfar the largest is Siberia, which is a million square mileslarger than Europe, and even larger than the UnitedStates, Mexico, and Central America combined. Yet ithas less than one-twelfth as many inhabitants as theUnited States Fig. wedding procession passing through a street in Teheran. The climatic belts of Russia in Asia are merely a con-tinuation of the belts in European Russia (p. 266). Inthe north of Siberia are the tundras, with a scatteredpeople who resemble the Eskimos (Fig. 268) of NorthAmerica and make a bare living by the help of the rein-deer (Fig. 48). South of the tundras are the forests(p. 359), containing many valuable fur-bearing animals,such as the sable, ermine, and fox, and peopled mainly by RUSSIA IN ASIA 379 hunters and lumbermen. There are some farms in the clearings; and when the forests are removed this should become a great agricultural region. Still farther south are the broad Kirghiz steppes (p. 359), watered enough for farming in the north, but more and more arid toward the south in Turkestan and Bokhara.
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