Soviet Central Asia

Soviet Central Asia
Area4,003,451 km2 (1,545,741 sq mi)
DemonymCentral Asian, Soviet
Countries Soviet Union
LanguagesKarakalpak, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, and Others
Time zones
2 time zones
  • UTC+05:00:
  • UTC+06:00:
    • Standard: Kazakhstan (4 cities, 9 regions), Kyrgyzstan
Internet TLD.su, .kg, .kz, .tj, .tm, .uz
Calling codeZone 9 except Kazakhstan (Zone 7)
Largest cities
UN M49 code143Central Asia
142Asia
001 – World
  1. ^ With population over 500,000 people
Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible Eurasian boundaries for the subregion

Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanizedSovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence. It is nearly synonymous with Russian Turkestan in the Russian Empire. Soviet Central Asia went through many territorial divisions before the current borders were created in the 1920s and 1930s.