Central Asia - Political map

"Central Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, "the 'stans" (as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent. In modern contexts, all definitions of Central Asia include these five republics of the former Soviet Union: Kazakhstan ..., Kyrgyzstan ..., Tajikistan ..., Turkmenistan ..., and Uzbekistan ... Other areas sometimes included are Afghanistan, Mongolia, eastern Iran, and northwestern Pakistan, and sometimes Xinjiang and Tibet in western China, the Kashmir region of northern India and northern Pakistan, and southern Siberia in southern Russia." [Central Asia. Wikipedia] This Central Asia political map was redesigned from Wikimedia Commons file: Central Asia - political map - 2000.svg. [commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Asia_-_political_map_-_2000.svg] This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en] The political map example "Central Asia" was drawn using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the design elements library Asia. The political map example "Central Asia" is included in the Continent Maps solution from the Maps area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.