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Originally Posted by xzmattzx
Nice pictures. This place seems to be pretty far south. Just what is the definition of Siberia anyway? I thought it was just the northern, desolate, forested and tundra areas.
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No, Siberia (Сибирь) spans the width of Russia north to south, from the Urals in the West to either about two-thirds of the way to the Pacific, where the Russian Far East (Дальний восток) begins. This is an area easily bigger than the lower 48 on its own.
(Nikolai V. Shokhirev, shokhirev.com)
Some definitions also toss in the Far East, which has Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, to include all of Russian past the Urals, a titanic landmass around the size of the United States and Eurozone
combined.