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This city is the capital of Afghanistan.
What is Kabul?
100
This city is the capital of Uzbekistan.
What is Tashkent?
100
How many republics are in Central Asia?
What is 6?
100
These 3 categories describe the climate and topography of Central Asia.
What are desert, steppe, and highland?
100
Both the Caspian and Aral Sea have this unique feature.
What is saline?
200
This city is the capital of Kazakhstan.
What is Astana?
200
This country covers over a million square miles and is the 4th larges country in Asia.
What is Kazakhstan?
200
How many of these belonged to the Soviet Union for much of the 20th century?
What is 5?
200
These are the two desert wastelands that dominate Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and southwestern Kazakhstan.
What are the Karakum and Kyzylkum?
200
This is considered the world's largest lake.
What is the Caspian Sea?
300
This city is the capital of Tajikistan.
What is Dushanbe?
300
This is Kazakhstan's largest city with a population of over a million people.
What is Almaty?
300
This people group makes up about 40% of the population in Kazakhstan.
What are the Kazakhs?
300
Karakum is translated to mean this.
What is Black Sand?
300
These are Central Asia's two principal rivers.
What are Amu Darya and Syr Darya?
400
This city is the capital of Turkmenistan.
What is Ashgabat?
400
This city is not only the capital of Afghanistan, but has long been the center of caravan trade between Central Asia and India.
What is Kabul?
400
The Soviets used eastern Kazakhstan for over 40 years to test these.
What are nuclear weapons?
400
Kyzylkum is translated to mean this.
What is Red Sand?
400
This is scarce in this region.
What is precipitation?
500
This city is the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
What is Bishkek?
500
This country is known as one of the poorest countries in the world.
What is Afghanistan?
500
After the Soviet withdrawal from this country in 1989 this Islamic group waged a guerrilla war against the Soviet-installed puppet government.
What are the mujahideens?
500
These are the two largest bodies of water in this region.
What are the Caspian and Aral Seas?
500
Central Asia experiences great extremes in this because of it's distance from the oceans.
What is temperature?