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Under one definition, Central Asia covers about 9,029,000 km², or 21% of the continent. Under this definition Central Asia includes the following countries:

• China (the province of Qinghai, and the autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Tibet)
• Kazakhstan (the territories east of the Ural River),
• Kyrgyzstan,
• Mongolia,
• Tajikistan,
• Turkmenistan and
• Uzbekistan.

A second definition includes:

• Iranian Azerbaijan
• The countries of Transcaucasia ( AzerbaijanThe Republic of Azerbaijan ( Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan or #x4D9;јҹ is a country in the Caucasus adjacent to the Caspian Sea that shares borders with Russia in the north, Georgia, Armenia, in the west and Iran in the south. The Nakhchivan Au, ArmeniaArmenia ( Armenian: ''Hayastan is a landlocked country in southern Transcaucasia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan in the east and Iran and the Naxcivan exclave of Azerbaijan in th, and GeorgiaGeorgia ( Sakartvelo in Georgian), known from 1990 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia is a country to the east of the Black Sea in the south Caucasus. A former republic of the Soviet Union, it shares borders with Russia in the north and Turkey, Armenia, A)
• TurkicSee: Turkic peoples Turkic languages See also: The country Turkey Turkish language Turkish Airlines Turkish cuisine Turkish music./ MuslimA Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. The word Muslim means one who submits and implies complete submission to the will of God ( Allah). Muslims believe that nature is itself Islamic, since it follows natural laws placed by God. Thus, a Muslim s regions of southern RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With (Southern SiberiaSiberia ( Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir Sibir' is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan, constituting all of northern Asia, and extending eastward from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and southward from the Arctic Oc)
• Mongolia
• The western portions of China ( Xinjiang and Tibet)
• Afghanistan or parts of it
• Parts of northern Pakistan

A third definition describes Central Asia as consisting of only the former Soviet Central Asian Republics:

• Kazakhstan,
• Kyrgyzstan,
• Uzbekistan,
• Tajikistan and
• Turkmenistan.