The Angara (Buryat and Mongolian: Ангар, Angar, lit. "Cleft"; Russian: Ангара́, Angará) is a major river in Siberia, which traces a course through Russia's Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai.It drains out of Lake Baikal and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisey. It is 1,849 kilometres (1,149 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 1,039,000 square kilometres (401,000 …

Geografía. El río Yeniséi nace en Kizil (Tuvá), de la confluencia del río Bolshói Yeniséi (Gran Yeniséi) y el río Maly Yeniséi (Pequeño Yeniséi), que provienen de los montes Sayanes Orientales a lo largo de la frontera ruso-mongola, y desemboca en el mar de Kara, océano Ártico, en un estuario de unos 400 km conformado por la bahía de Yeniséi y el golfo de Yeniséi.

The Yenisey proper, from the confluence of its source rivers Great Yenisey and Little Yenisey at Kyzyl to its mouth in the Kara Sea, is 3,487 km (2,167 mi) long.From the source of its tributary Selenga, it is 5,075 km (3,153 mi) long. It has a drainage basin of 2,580,000 km 2 (1,000,000 sq mi). The Yenisey flows through the Russian federal subjects Tuva, Khakassia [citation needed] …

Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. It includes the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, with peninsular …

Dené–Yeniseian is a proposed language family consisting of the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia and the Na-Dené languages of northwestern North America.. Reception among experts has been somewhat favorable; thus, Dené–Yeniseian has been called "the first demonstration of a genealogical link between Old World and New World language families that meets the …

The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.The present Russia-United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W longitude, slightly south of the Arctic Circle at about 65° 40' N latitude.The Strait is named after Vitus …

The Old Turkic script (also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates from the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.. The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia where early 8th-century inscriptions were discovered in an 1889 expedition …

The East Indies (or simply the Indies), is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery.The Indies refers to various lands in the East or the Eastern hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainlands found in and around the Indian Ocean by Portuguese explorers, soon after the Cape route was discovered. Nowadays, this term is broadly used to refer to the Malay …

Name. The literal morphs samo and yed in Russian convey the meaning "self-eater", which is considered derogatory. Therefore, the name Samoyed quickly went out of usage in the 20th century. The people are known as the Nenets, which means "people".. In old Russian, the term Samoyed was often applied indiscriminately to different peoples of Northern Russia who speak …

The obvious circular area in the central valley is the Klyuchevskaya Sopka, an isolated volcanic group southeast of the curve of the Kamchatka River.West of Kronotsky Point is the Kronotsky Biosphere Reserve with the Valley of Geysers.At the southern tip is the Southern Kamchatka Wildlife Refuge with Kurile Lake.There are several other protected areas on the peninsula.