Everyone knows that Siberia is part of the territory of the Russian Federation (and most of it). And they heard about her untold riches, and about the beauties, and about the significance for the country - most likely, too. But where Siberia is exactly, many find it difficult to answer. Even Russians will not always be able to show it on the map, not to mention foreigners. And the more difficult will be the question of where Siberia is Western, and where is its eastern part.
Geographic location of Siberia
Siberia is a region that combines many administrative-territorial units of Russia - regions, republics, autonomous regions and territories. Its total area is approximately 13 million square kilometers, which is 77 percent of the entire territory of the country. A small part of Siberia belongs to Kazakhstan.
To understand where Siberia is,you need to take a map, find the Ural Mountains on it and “walk” from them east to the Pacific Ocean (the path will be approximately 7 thousand km). And then find the Arctic Ocean and descend "from its shores" to the north of Kazakhstan and to the borders with Mongolia and China (3.5 thousand km).
It is within these limits that Siberia is located, occupying the northeastern part of the Eurasian continent. In the west it ends at the foot of the Ural Mountains, in the east it is limited to the Oceanic Ranges. The north of Mother Siberia "flows" into the Arctic Ocean, and the south rests on the rivers: Lena, Yenisei and Ob.
And all this space, rich in natural resources and untraveled paths, is usually divided into Western Siberia and Eastern Siberia.
Where is Western Siberia located? Geographic location
The western part of Siberia stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Yenisei River for 1500-1900 kilometers. Its length from the Arctic Ocean is a little more - 2500 km. And the total area is almost 2.5 million square kilometers (15% of the territory of the Russian Federation).
Most of Western Siberia lies on the West Siberian Plain. It covers such regions of the Russian Federation as Kurgan, Tyumen, Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk (partially). It also includes the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Altai Territory, the Republic of Altai, Khakassia and the western part of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Where is Eastern Siberia? Features of the territorial location
Eastern is called most of Siberia. Its territory covers about seven million square kilometers. It stretches east from the Yenisei River to the mountain formations separating the Arctic and Pacific oceans.
The northernmost point of Eastern Siberia is Cape Chelyuskin, and the southern limit is the border with China and Mongolia.
This part is located mainly on the Central Siberian Plateau and covers the Taimyr Territory, Yakutia, Tungus, Irkutsk Region, Buryatia, and Transbaikalia.
Thus, the answer to the question of where Siberia is located has been received, and finding it on the map will not be a problem. It remains to supplement theoretical knowledge with practical ones and find out what Siberia is from the personal experience of the traveler.
