Central Asia Explained 

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New info i learned: Surprisingly, Kazakhstan's southernmost border is closer to SAUDI ARABIA than it is to SaTUrN (hard to believe, i know but it's true) Wow, you learn something new everyday. Thanks, Khanubis! 😂

If you're wondering about the Germans in Kazakhstan, they're offspring of Volga Germans who were deported to the Kazakh SSR from the Volga German Autonomous SSR. They chose not to return to Germany after the USSR dissolution because of lack of interest since they've assimilated into the culture

It's so weird that a lot of people don't know about this place. But in Turkey, everyone knows these countries pretty well since It's kinda our ancient homeland.

10/10 best candidate to talk about this region

Kazakhstan actually just hit 19 million people, which was celebrated a few days ago.

im thinking he put Mongolia in tibet instead of Mongolia just to piss us off

Wasn't it Central Asians that first tamed horses and Central Asian nomads that terrorized Rome and China for centuries? Even Alexander the Great fought the Scythians of Central Asia.

Kazakhstan = thicc boi Uzbekistan = where people actually live Kyrgyzstan = xbox flag Tajikistan = Persia number 36. Turkmenistan = What if hell existed on earth, but white?

I'd love to go to Central Asia - I feel like I have so much left to learn about it

Kazakhs themselves hate the new name of the capital, and call it Astana as it should be

The whole region was collectively called Turkestan, which included Xinjiang/Uyghuristan, that's why it's also known as East Turkestan.

Love my Turkic brothers and sisters. Love from Turkey

Fun fact: So much marble was used to build Ashgabat that it was awarded a Guiness World Record.

I was hoping you would talk about the Aral Sea and its sad condition nowadays, but I guess that could be a future video or something

Hi everyone , im from Kazakhstan and i wanna say that for us(for kazakhs) capital is Astana , not Nur - Sultan . Couse we hate our dictator vice president .And thank for great video ! P.s. sorry for my English

1:28 Fun fact: The anthem of Afghanistan has the line "In the chest of Asia" in it. And I also never heard any educational videos or channel or book that said Afghanistan is in South Asia. But eh, I donno...

As Southeast Asian, I agree that we seldom heard about Central Asia but I know all its countries. I also think it's Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 are the strong force in this region as I was always amazed by the fact that they consistently place in Top 10 or either of them make sure to be in top 5 always in Asian Games. Lowkey countries for sure. I also know that they are related with Turkey culture, correct me if I'm wrong. And yes, they are so underrated region.

I immediately interested in this place after reading historical manga Otoyomegatari (A Bride's Story). Geography Now also helped.

I never knew that Asia is bigger than Los Angeles. Thanks for the information!

I’m planning on exploring Uzbekistan once everything gets better for travel, great introduction to this beautiful region 🇺🇿

Here everyone saying that Central Asia as forgotten place.Still it's better than being on a news coverage with bad stuff or war like that.They are living quietly and pretty prosperous.I am from Uzbekistan but I'm not there right now but missing home so much

*Turanists would like to know your location*

I actually went to all of those countries (except Turkmenistan) before all of this corona thing. It certainly was one of my best trips and it is totally worth it. The place is safe, cheap, and locals are the most friendly people you will ever find!

Hello from a German from Kazakhstan . Thank you for the video . It’s good for a foreigner

Im from Kazakhstan i hope Kazkhstan will have 50 mln population in the future

Selam Turkic brothers from Turkey

Really cool subject, thank you for shedding light on these fascinating countries!

5:30 the surprisingly large ethnic German population is due to the Soviets' forced resettling of a lot of minorities, including Germans to Siberia, Kazakhstan and other parts of the Soviet Union. Most ethnic Germans have returned to Germany after 1990 and have been naturalized but politicians back then were surprised by the large number of returning families and made it quite difficult to obtain German citizenship which forced some ethnic Germans to remain in Central Asia. Others of course didn't want to return in the first place because they saw Central Asia as their home. It's easy to understand considering most families had been there for nearly 50 years at that point. I had the pleasure to work with a lot of Germans that have returned from Kazakhstan and the stories they tell from their old home are astounding and it's surprising that almost no one in my age group is even aware that all of this happened considering we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people that were resettled by the Soviets.

Another great video, always so fun and educational. Thank you

Always wanted to see a video like this one Thank you!

Great video! A quick and good summary of the region! 😊

Love all Central Asian nations and their amazing cultures and people from Greece 🇬🇷❤️🇰🇿🇰🇬🇺🇿🇹🇲🇹🇯.

dude you're hilarious. I love how you transition into your jokes so calmly

Central Asia is the most underrated region in the world. We barely heard this countries, its people, its culture and so on to think that this region is way and far larger than Europe.

Nicely summarized, I hope more people will learn about our region, thank you! I come from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 though

Timur is the only historical figure I know from this region. I had no idea that the inventor of algebra was from here to though, that's pretty crazy that something so important to our world came from such a quiet region of it.

Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job 👊🏻👊🏻🎉🎉👊🏻

Very informative. Believe me, I know a lot more now than before I watched it. Definitely places to visit before you die. Great job, thanks for sharing.

Very good, well presented video with humour thrown in for extra effect! :-)

I'd love to visit Kyrgyzstan once. Mountains, plains and clean air.

I really want to go to Uzbekistan someday! I first heard about this nation from ramadhan tv programs in my country when I was 10 years old. I really like the ancient architecture there, so vibrant and fascinating.

I used to work for immigration and the people I met from this region were exceptionally polite and friendly, especially the people from Kyrgyzstan.

Good video bro keep it up

This region is wild because it’s often considered the most irrelevant or forgotten region of the world but for about all of world history before 1500 it was time and time again the origin point of major players

Yes Quite Informative Thanks for making this video... I also want to explore the Central and Western Asian Country in my future....

Thanks for the great video ! Hi everyone from Kyrgyzstan !!! please welcome to visit our Central Asian countries !!

I serve as a soldier in Germany and have an exchange comrade from Turkmenistan. I love learning more about his homeland from him and cooking with him. It's really hot in his hometown year round, but they eat mostly soups, which we consider more of a wintermeal, to warm you up for example

Salam from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

Great video. I find central Asia very interesting

I am from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan belongs to Central Asia, looking at history, Mavronahr and Khurasan have a very strong cultural history, no one can separate us from our history, Khurasan, I hope we will unite with Khurasan as before and become a center of knowledge as before

Fun facts: Kazakhstan was the whole USSR for 4 days And the first apple came from Almaty, the name of which means "Father of Apples"

Tüm Türk ülkelerine ve vatandaşlarına selam olsun ! 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇰🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲

5:35 In Kasachstan are so many people from german origin because our boy Stalin ordered an massiv deportation auf ethnic groups . Thus specifically germans landed in Siberia and Kasachstan. Most of the Kasachs were cool though.

Thank you for this overview. I got interested in this region while I was learning about the mongols and the silk road. I'm also very interested in ancient Bactria, which is a close neighboor.

The opening of this video is amazing

I'm a western European but have always been amazed about how little we learn about this region

5:25 update few days ago Kazakhstan's population reached 19 million people

Interesting fact, The Kyrgyz Epic of Manas is one of the biggest epics in the world

Kyrgyzstan's most southern point is closer to Saudi Arabia than it is to Saturn. Cheers for that really helpful fact, it's something I've struggled to understand for some time now.

1:27 Afghanistan is not considered as part of the ex-Soviet Central Asian states but is more Central Asian than it is South Asian. Afghanistan is not usually considered as part of South Asia. In some instances such as SAARC it is. And that was only after 2007 or whenever Afghanistan joined that economic group.

I love Central Asia. I’ve been to Turkmenistan and I’m planning on visiting Kazakhstan and staying in Kyrgyzstan for a few months!

The presentation is neat

Not every Central Asian country uses Cyrillic alphabet! Uzbekistan already uses Latin as well as Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan switches to it starting from 2025.

I've been to Kyrgyzstan 3 times to visit my long distance girlfriend that lives there. Beautiful country.

The UN geoscheme is wrong. Afghanistan and Iran should be part of Central Asia, their history and culture are Central Asian. Afghans and Iranians also self-indentify their countries as Central Asian countries. Furthermore, Central Asia deserves to have at least one coastal country, it is the only continental subregion in the UN geoscheme comprising only landlocked countries.

Amazing. Thank u😃 GOD BLESS U😇 I could imagine how the richness of complexity the mixture of its culture could be! It is mind boggling. 😇🙂😇

What a very interesting video

4:41 Sweden in 2025: "allow me to introduce myself"

Dont really laugh at puns or jokes in RU-vid videos but the Saudi Arabia-saturn joke got me

This would've helped me for my geography report then hope others can use this as reference

AW YEAH a video dedicated to a somewhat obscure and little-discussed region of the world. I am here for this.

Central Asia is the large, but sparse area of the world. If it were a family, Kazakhstan would be the good old gramps, Mongolia would be the grandma with the old story of crossing multiple countries to school (code word: success), Uzbekistan would be the more loved sibling and the others re the kids often forgotten. May be you should connotate Genghis Khan and the cities more. And the Kyrgyzstan flag is a gamer's delight! ------- Shout out to KhAnubis for making this video! Well-researched and interesting!

Darvaza crater? Their cool leader did doughnuts around that thing to prove he was alive

Nice video

Ive needed a video about this area for months now. On a map its just such a big area but at least i am very uninformed about what it holds

Wow, I really did not expect, Kazakhstan's southernmost to be closer to Saudi Arabia than to Saturn. #themoreyouknow

From Indiana in USA love geography and learning about the Turkic people's of central Asia

Like your honesty.

Hey, I know I’m a bit late but do you know what happened to Kraut (if you know him of course). He’s behind his schedule more than a month and his profile picture changed. I am worried he got hacked.

For the longest time I thought Kazakhstan was more populous than Uzbekistan... You really learn something new every day!

I was surprised someone talked about Kazakhstan with out saying "is nice"

Thanks a lot

7:06: You know, Drew Binsky made a video comparing the two.

Afghanistan was always considered part of Central Asia. After 9/11, it became part of “Middle East.” Only the British considered Afghanistan part of South Asia. The word Asia is routed in the Iranian word for the Horse lords, the Asiani (Osyani), and they were originally Indo-Iranian. Their modern descendants are the Ossetians who live near the Caucasus. Their language is Eastern Iranian, the same as the Pashtuns aka, the Afghans.

Hey , could u plz make a video on how Central Asia got independence ? I googled this but couldn’t find a better answer .

Well Done

Very slick and informative video...Love from India

Man mentioned Germans in Kazakhstan but didnt talk bout the Koreans??

We ‘Stan’ Central Asia!!!

Good one

Longtime travel wish, thanks for this great appetizer 🧠🚿

Hello to all my central asian Brother from a Turkey Turk ❤❤❤

Why is Iran being included in "Southern Asia?" Historically, Persia, and now Iran, has been categorized as part of the Middle East, seeing as it was only one of the most dominant players both politically and culturally throughout the region, and continues to be so today.

This region is intriguing and appealing

Actually wanted to go there this summer but Corona fucked up my plans

I'm pretty sure Iran is more West Asia than South Asia

Fun fact: Central Asia was once a United country of “Turkistan”. Which thanks to Stalin and co. was divided into uneven borders and Sovereign states even though these countries were highly integrated with each other.. Thus the Autonomous region of “East Turkestan” of Uyghur people, which was quite literally gifted to China by Stalin as a “Commie bro gift”. But yeah these nations could actually form a single Federation, and was one before the Russian invasions.

thank you for making this video! - an american-born uzbek-turkmen :)

I am from Poland and this place is in my mind at the moment after i met Uzbek on the internet haha. Very interesting place.