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Central Asia

A region of Asia consisting of the landlocked nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, along with the autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Xinjiang Uygur in China. In extended use the term sometimes also includes Afghanistan, Mongolia, and adjacent regions of other Asian countries.

Central Asian adj. & n.
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Central Asian

[ˌsentrəlˈeɪʃn] ADJcentroasiático, de Asia Central
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The American delegation was headed by Mark Moody, Director of the Central Asian Affairs Office of the US Department of State Bureau for South and Central Asian Affairs.
The round table provided an excellent opportunity to discuss such pressing issues on the cooperationagenda as the role and place of Russia and Central Asian countries in the integration processes in the post-Soviet space, the Eurasian model of interaction between expert communities, institutions and methods of partnership between experts from Russia and Central Asia.
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