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Geography of Northeast Asia
- Siberian River RoutesSiberian River Routes were the arteries of an empire in motion. In just 57 years, from 1582 to 1639, Russian Cossacks moved from the Ural Mountains all the…
- Arctic OceanAt roughly 14,060,000 square kilometers, the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions, and it is also the coldest.
- Kuril IslandsThe Kuril Islands stretch roughly 1,300 kilometres from the northern tip of Hokkaido all the way to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, and today they sit at the…
- Kamchatka PeninsulaThe Kamchatka Peninsula stretches 1,250 kilometers into the Pacific from Russia's far eastern edge, a finger of land so remote that it remained closed to…
- Sea of OkhotskThe Sea of Okhotsk sits at the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean, pressed between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, Japan's island of…
- ArcticThe Arctic takes its name from a bear. The Greek word arktikos means "near the Bear, northern," and arktos means "bear," pointing skyward to the…
- SakhalinSakhalin is a Russian island that sits at the edge of two worlds, separated from the Asian mainland by just 6.5 km at its narrowest point, yet positioned…
- Sea of JapanThe Sea of Japan sits in near-total isolation from the Pacific Ocean, enclosed by the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, Sakhalin, and the Russian…
- Sakha RepublicThe Sakha Republic covers more than 3,083,523 square kilometres of the Russian Far East, making it the single largest country subdivision on Earth.
- Bering StraitThe Bering Strait is only 82 km wide at its narrowest point, yet that slim channel of frigid water has divided two continents, shaped human history, and…