Brief introduction of North Asia

North Asia is about 7,000 kilometers long from east to west and 4,000 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of 6,543,800 square kilometers. The coastline is nearly 30 thousand kilometers long. The terrain is mostly plateau platforms and mountains. Extreme continental cold and warm climate, high latitude geographical location, profound influence of glacier Leng Hai, complete land contour, mountainous plateau and open terrain to the north make the climate in North Asia have obvious extreme cold continental climate characteristics. This area is rich in natural resources and the traffic is developing rapidly, mainly railways. This area is an important energy and raw material base. On this basis, petrochemical, coal chemical, non-ferrous metal mining and metallurgical industries have also been developed. The iron and steel industry has begun to take shape, and the machinery industry has developed, but it is still very weak. Agriculture is more developed in southern Siberia, with wheat and dairy products and meat animal husbandry as the main sectors.

The origin of the name

In the article "The Origin of Siberian Place Names" by Bohan and Feng Jiasheng, it is believed that Siberian place names come from Xianbei. Xianbei lived in Siberia in ancient times, and Xianbei in China's history books is just a scattered surname of this nation's southward migration. Siberia has a vast territory, starting from Urals Mountain in the west, east to Chukchi Peninsula, and facing Alaska across the sea. Siberia is transliterated from Chinese, SIBERIEN from German, SIBERIE from French and SBERIA from English. It is obviously transliterated from English, so it is the latest noun. It is not easy to find historical clues with the latest nouns, so we must come up with an older name. Siberian Russian is счбчр, which comes from Latin SIBIR. This is the result of writing in German, French and English. Russian SIBIR is transliterated from a nation called Sibir, which first appeared in Russian in 1483. The Tsar began to call himself Emperor of Siberia in 1563. After the demise of Xibe nationality, several cities and regions they left behind were also called Xibe nationality, and finally expanded into modern Xibe nationality or vast areas of Siberia. Bowen has a detailed discussion, so I won't repeat it here.