If you're wondering about the Germans in Kazakhstan, they're offspring of Volga Germans who were deported to the Kazakh SSR from the Volga German Autonomous SSR. They chose not to return to Germany after the USSR dissolution because of lack of interest since they've assimilated into the culture
Most do speak at least some German, especially as a second language. With elderly Volga Germans typically still speaking it alongside Russian as a fluent first language
My mom is born in Kazakhstan, her grandpa wanted her to speak german all the time. He gave her german books and so an and she had to learn the language... After all, she spoke nothing but russian ;P maybe just a few german basics. After collapse of USSR my parents came to germany, now she finally speaks german, granpa would be proud, haha.
New info i learned: Surprisingly, Kazakhstan's southernmost border is closer to SAUDI ARABIA than it is to SaTUrN (hard to believe, i know but it's true) Wow, you learn something new everyday. Thanks, Khanubis! 😂
It's so weird that a lot of people don't know about this place. But in Turkey, everyone knows these countries pretty well since It's kinda our ancient homeland.
@@neixnneiro7505 yeah wasn't it Turkic and mongol tribes that fought over the the eastern steps, which made some Turkic tribes move even further west when the Mongols united and began expanding? or am I misremembering
Wasn't it Central Asians that first tamed horses and Central Asian nomads that terrorized Rome and China for centuries? Even Alexander the Great fought the Scythians of Central Asia.
0 / 10 RUclips managed to make even this topic boring and demoralizing. I search central asia vids to get away from all of the demoralizing commercial content. Now YT is ruining that too.
RUclips wants to re write history, and make these videos as boring as possible. This format is for young people, they're molding and shaping the way the young people think, that's usually the end goal of this boring, demoralizing, 0 content video
Kazakhstan = thicc boi Uzbekistan = where people actually live Kyrgyzstan = xbox flag Tajikistan = Persia number 36. Turkmenistan = What if hell existed on earth, but white?
Orlando Sages Firstly, no one cares about how your government artificially increases the population numbers, secondly, its r/woosh not w/roosh and its for when someone doesnt get a joke and builds upon this misunderstanding, not for when you try to seem cool but fail.
@@ali.arnasy what did he mean? I didn't get it, it's kinda ironic when someone thinks himself smart while whooshing childishly, also, I saw a comment of his saying that native americans are Asians and no one is native to America, you get the point.
apple's lover he just wanted to flex Uzbekistan’s population numbers, saying they’re higher(which is true), but he kinda didn’t do it right, as you can see. There actually are native americans. They are Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Google it, you’ll find information. They’re Called “Ündister” in Kazakh and “Indeitsy” in russian.
I am from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan belongs to Central Asia, looking at history, Mavronahr and Khurasan have a very strong cultural history, no one can separate us from our history, Khurasan, I hope we will unite with Khurasan as before and become a center of knowledge as before
Every mid and pre 2000s scholastic articles point to Afghanistan as being central asian or middle eastern not south asian. The ones that say south asian are recent articles because of the south asian fervor to include us like changing wikipedia or when south asians are included in scholastic papers they will include afghanistan as south asian. It causes a chain reaction for other people who dont know much and search and continue to spread that idea. Afghanistan has been very important to central asian history and Uzbek and Tajik history.
@@krsn77540 Turkic and Mongolic origin are completely different. While proto-Mongols originated in Eastern Central Asia, Proto-Turks emerged in Siberia.
No, Central Asia has two "countries" before USSR occupation, Turkestan and Bukhara. Bukhara was a large part of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan and Turkestan was the rest of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang. There wasn't a clear border of course, but for the most part that's how it was.
I frequently visit 🙂 its a nice place with nice people just try to avoid being overpriced at shops and hitting on girls in front of guys of the same ethnicity xD Knowing Russian helps alot
As Southeast Asian, I agree that we seldom heard about Central Asia but I know all its countries. I also think it's Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 are the strong force in this region as I was always amazed by the fact that they consistently place in Top 10 or either of them make sure to be in top 5 always in Asian Games. Lowkey countries for sure. I also know that they are related with Turkey culture, correct me if I'm wrong. And yes, they are so underrated region.
@@tasbykekerey1203 I agree with you, Iran is like China, Perisa is like Han, and i think that Iran is not just the concept of a race or a nation, but a greater universal cultural community, in including all Iranic language speaking people, other Caucassian and Turkic people who have been deeply influenced by Iranic civilization,
Hi everyone , im from Kazakhstan and i wanna say that for us(for kazakhs) capital is Astana , not Nur - Sultan . Couse we hate our dictator vice president .And thank for great video ! P.s. sorry for my English
5:30 the surprisingly large ethnic German population is due to the Soviets' forced resettling of a lot of minorities, including Germans to Siberia, Kazakhstan and other parts of the Soviet Union. Most ethnic Germans have returned to Germany after 1990 and have been naturalized but politicians back then were surprised by the large number of returning families and made it quite difficult to obtain German citizenship which forced some ethnic Germans to remain in Central Asia. Others of course didn't want to return in the first place because they saw Central Asia as their home. It's easy to understand considering most families had been there for nearly 50 years at that point. I had the pleasure to work with a lot of Germans that have returned from Kazakhstan and the stories they tell from their old home are astounding and it's surprising that almost no one in my age group is even aware that all of this happened considering we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people that were resettled by the Soviets.
1:28 Fun fact: The anthem of Afghanistan has the line "In the chest of Asia" in it. And I also never heard any educational videos or channel or book that said Afghanistan is in South Asia. But eh, I donno...
Soleh, in my opinion Afghanistan should be part of Central Asia because over Tajik make up over 25% of the population in Afghanistan. Plus Pashtun speaks a indo-Iranian languages like the Tajik, unlike their neighbour in Pakistan? Punjabi speaks a indo-Aryan language. Plus there’s a popular sport in Central Asia called Buzkashi, this is also popular for the Pashtun, but it isn’t popular amongst the Punjabi’s or Sindhis in Pakistan.
I was just about to hunt for comments about A Bride's Story after watching this video, i can' believe i found it so soon! I see you have great taste, That manga is a maaterpiece!
Here everyone saying that Central Asia as forgotten place.Still it's better than being on a news coverage with bad stuff or war like that.They are living quietly and pretty prosperous.I am from Uzbekistan but I'm not there right now but missing home so much
@chistobistrogilamyuvish3051 isn't it true about 20 years ago Uzbekistan market switched from the Defunct Daewoo cars to General Motors Chevrolet model? I think it's very cool, my late father here in the USA always bought and drove Chevys- so I feel a certain kinship there. If I'm not mistaken you are the 3rd largest market after USA and Brazil. Someday if it is willed maybe I shall see Uzbekistan for myself, the pictures are lovely. 😊
Сиз түрктөр эмессиз, биз түпкү түрктөрбүз, биз азиялыктарбыз, сиз хеттериңиздин, гректердин жана Анадолунун түпкү тургундарынын урпактарынын калдыктарысыз, бул өзүңүздү түрк деп эсептеген сизге жетиштүү. 🦅🇰🇬🇰🇿🇹🇲🇺🇿🦅
I actually went to all of those countries (except Turkmenistan) before all of this corona thing. It certainly was one of my best trips and it is totally worth it. The place is safe, cheap, and locals are the most friendly people you will ever find!
Central Asia is the most underrated region in the world. We barely heard this countries, its people, its culture and so on to think that this region is way and far larger than Europe.
Because Central Asia was dependent on Russia until 1991 year from 1920 year (I estimate 1865) And it is very bad that although in central asia has one language, religion, poetry, history, But they were divided to five countries.
I really want to go to Uzbekistan someday! I first heard about this nation from ramadhan tv programs in my country when I was 10 years old. I really like the ancient architecture there, so vibrant and fascinating.
When you visit Uzbekistan, you can pilgrimage grave of al-Buxáriy (writer of Hadis) But his grave is not in Buxárá, it is in Samarkand (old capital of Uzbekistan)
Timur is the only historical figure I know from this region. I had no idea that the inventor of algebra was from here to though, that's pretty crazy that something so important to our world came from such a quiet region of it.
Tell you even more, just google these names and read a little about them: Ibn Sino, Mirzo Ulugbek, Ali al-Kushchi, Al-Farobiy, Al-Beruniy, Al-Bukhari. These are just on top of my head :D Once this region was the land of most astonishing thinkers and scientists. In those times, when trading along the Silk Road was flourishing.
5:35 In Kasachstan are so many people from german origin because our boy Stalin ordered an massiv deportation auf ethnic groups . Thus specifically germans landed in Siberia and Kasachstan. Most of the Kasachs were cool though.
I serve as a soldier in Germany and have an exchange comrade from Turkmenistan. I love learning more about his homeland from him and cooking with him. It's really hot in his hometown year round, but they eat mostly soups, which we consider more of a wintermeal, to warm you up for example
This region is wild because it’s often considered the most irrelevant or forgotten region of the world but for about all of world history before 1500 it was time and time again the origin point of major players
@@tanm3yy it depends on the which version of Manas we are talking about. There is three most popular ones, two of them shorter than Mahabharata, but the one is like 2 times longer
1:27 Afghanistan is not considered as part of the ex-Soviet Central Asian states but is more Central Asian than it is South Asian. Afghanistan is not usually considered as part of South Asia. In some instances such as SAARC it is. And that was only after 2007 or whenever Afghanistan joined that economic group.
The UK tried to make Afghanistan a part of South Asia so Russia couldn't get their hands on it. People like the guy making this video know nothing of actual geography, just whatever propaganda they were fed
The UN geoscheme is wrong. Afghanistan and Iran should be part of Central Asia, their history and culture are Central Asian. Afghans and Iranians also self-indentify their countries as Central Asian countries. Furthermore, Central Asia deserves to have at least one coastal country, it is the only continental subregion in the UN geoscheme comprising only landlocked countries.
Not every Central Asian country uses Cyrillic alphabet! Uzbekistan already uses Latin as well as Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan switches to it starting from 2025.
@@irinaivanovna6380 I often come across Uzbek content on the internet that is in Cyrillic. Even here on RUclips many young people who were born after the reform are still using the Cyrillic. From what I see, it's not 80%, but closer to 50/50. Given the fact it's been nearly 30 years, but there's still such a huge illiteracy in the new script, it's a complete and total failure. The reform was unnecessary and harmful.
@@andrisk2703 nah, it’s about 70%. I’m saying it as a person who can read and understand Uzbek. Why can’t they switch for 30 years? Because that’s not their first target. They are switching but slowly. And probably they can do it until 2025.
In Kazakhstan you should visit Almaty, best city in Central Asia. 8n Kyrgyzstan you should visit Issyk-Kul' lake/region very beautiful and 9ne of the best places to improve your health in the world.
@@ChristianJiang my granny and auntie still live in Issyk-kul' region. I used to spend entire summer holidays there every single year. You so lucky. How do you like it?
@@Roman-kk1ic The lake is so beautiful, really breathtaking!! I’m glad to be here... Such a beautiful scenery. I’m sure that, in March/April, it’ll be even more beautiful
He mentioned Germans for an effect of surprise: Look, Germans do live in Central Asia (even though Kazakhstan is partially in Eastern Europe), not Europe only. While Koreans living in Asia is not surprising at all!.
@@auga3896 As Kazakh myself (even though IEuropean-llooking), do you think I don't know that Koreans are totally different?! Koreans also live in Kazakhstan (they were deported from North Korea by Stalin not that long time ago in 1930-s) to Kazakhstan. Nowadays they make up only1% of population of Kazakhstan.
Fun fact: Central Asia was once a United country of “Turkistan”. Which thanks to Stalin and co. was divided into uneven borders and Sovereign states even though these countries were highly integrated with each other.. Thus the Autonomous region of “East Turkestan” of Uyghur people, which was quite literally gifted to China by Stalin as a “Commie bro gift”. But yeah these nations could actually form a single Federation, and was one before the Russian invasions.
@@Player100500 It was united before, but for a short amount of time. After russians conquered Uzbek lands, Uzbeks formed a federation of Turkestan, just before revolution of communists. But it only lived for 72 days because russians were invading and at the same time people were not united because some people wanted sharia law and some sided with stinky communists. Thus, it simply ceased to exist.
Kyrgyzstan's most southern point is closer to Saudi Arabia than it is to Saturn. Cheers for that really helpful fact, it's something I've struggled to understand for some time now.
Afghanistan was always considered part of Central Asia. After 9/11, it became part of “Middle East.” Only the British considered Afghanistan part of South Asia. The word Asia is routed in the Iranian word for the Horse lords, the Asiani (Osyani), and they were originally Indo-Iranian. Their modern descendants are the Ossetians who live near the Caucasus. Their language is Eastern Iranian, the same as the Pashtuns aka, the Afghans.
Britain considered Afghanistan part of the Indian subcontinent (learned that reading Sherlock Holmes.) Personally I get the argument for classifying it as Central Asian but it's not a former Soviet State and doesn't have that Russian influence/culture. So I'm cool classifying it as South Asia.
@@theangryholmesian4556 bro who are you to classify Afghanistan as South Asia. Your white English don’t be talking about where Afghanistan is. Afghanistan is always in and will be in Central Asia
Afghanistan is both south and central, there is Tajiks, hazaras, Uzbeks, pahstuns living in afghan, Tajiks hazara Uzbeks makes 50% of Afghanistan and these people r central, and pahstuns makes another 50% of Afghanistan and these people r south Asian
Central Asia is the large, but sparse area of the world. If it were a family, Kazakhstan would be the good old gramps, Mongolia would be the grandma with the old story of crossing multiple countries to school (code word: success), Uzbekistan would be the more loved sibling and the others re the kids often forgotten. May be you should connotate Genghis Khan and the cities more. And the Kyrgyzstan flag is a gamer's delight! ------- Shout out to KhAnubis for making this video! Well-researched and interesting!
I was really rooting for Tashkent, Uzbekistan to host for 2030 Asian Games but instead they were given by OCA the 2025 Asian Youth Games. More for Central Asia hosting please and not just East Asia, SEA, & MiddleEast always!
Afghanistan is part of central Asia for sure. Afghanistan has nearly 50% Tajik/Uzbek/turkik ethnicities, and the other main ethnicity (Pashtun) isn't South Asian either
Hey man. Kazakhstani here. Been watching you for a while. Glad you gave us some attention. If any of you have questions, I can answer here, or you can visit the subreddit I frequent, r/AskCentralAsia.
Hey Alen if you are a real Kazakh and no Russian I habe an question . You know that Kazakhs are also turks like the turkish people from turkey . I'm also a turkish Person and of cousengs I see all other Turkig people like Kazakhs fir example as Brothers baute my question ist do Kazakhs also see There selbes as turks ? Tnaks for answering :D
@@starkillermiri We Kazakhs all consider ourselves Turkic (not Turks, those are distinctly denizens of the Republic of Turkey), and we acknowledge our shared linguistic history, especially I, as a language nerd. Though other Kazakhs feel more kinship with Russians. While I don't feel that as much, and Turkish language is interesting for me, pan-Turkism ideas are not at all interesting.
@Vienna The culture and language are indeed damaged by the Soviet policies, with Kazakhs becoming Russified to an extent, however, I believe this situation is fixable with enough time and effort. Russians living in here are not the ones responsible for Soviet policies, so they are considered friends due to half a century of shared history. The only thing that bothers me is the complete disregard Kazakhstani Russians show towards Kazakh language, which hinders its popularity with Kazakhs themselves.
@@aslanfromnarnia339 I'm quite conscious about what I write. Kazakh/Qazaq is ethnicity. A Kazakh can be a citizen of Russia and he's still Kazakh. Kazakhstani is a citizen of Kazakhstan, which includes every ethnic Russian and other citizens.
@@krsn77540 Probably a Russian speaking about Turkic people. There is no such thing as a pure race we are all mixed up like them what is important is our common roots and history. And ı've been to Turkey they look similar to Turkmens.
@@krsn77540 It ıs worse a central asian talking bad towards other turkic people. Metehan would spit on your face. Luckily Anatolian Turks don't need people like you.Me and other Turkmens will always support them no matter what. I am also glad that there is not so many ignorant people like you in Uzbekistan you are extraordinary in a bad way.
Very informative. Believe me, I know a lot more now than before I watched it. Definitely places to visit before you die. Great job, thanks for sharing.
0:25 Saying this is also a generalisation to the USA, in the UK "Asian" almost always will mean the area you call South Asia, India, Pakistan etc. Likely due to the cultural an migrational ties between the UK and this area caused by that area being British for so long.
From growing up in the UK. Asian almost always meant South Asian and West Asian to me. So its weird when people on the Internet (usually americans) insist Im not Asian but Middle Eastern or Desi. Or that these regions arent Asian but the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent. Especially since Asia and Asian originates for what the Greeks called the land and people beyond the Aegean Sea (aka Turkey and West Asia)
Kazakhstan had over 2 million germans back in the day and they weren't just Volga germans, they were from all over Russia and nazis sent away to do hard labor
3:27 short history? I love americans' view on other countries. It's often oversimplified and ignorant. I think you should do your research better and stop skipping important historical facts. Turkic history goes way back before so called mongol empire and existed before some european cultures, let alone america. We had quite complex history with a lot of migrations. Our rulers are not limited to Tamerlan and Chinghis Khan, we had way more, all of which were of turkic origin with huge influence over european, russian, chinese and persian land. My point is either do better research or don't feature cultures you know nothing about at all.
As an American who has had a lifelong fascination and education in history and anthropology, and at least a cursory understanding of the pre-history and history of the Turkic peoples, all I can say is you are completely correct, although you are obviously stepping on a misplaced American pride in our being smugly ignorant about anything not about us.
Thank you for this overview. I got interested in this region while I was learning about the mongols and the silk road. I'm also very interested in ancient Bactria, which is a close neighboor.
Woow very nice. I wish you the best. I am from Tajikistan, here lived Bacrians and Soghdians. Only Soghdian language is not died and in Yaghnobians speaks in Soghdian language.
bactria is ancient Afghanistan the pashtuns are descendants of ancient aryans bactrians and scythians sources say that pashto is the second closest spoken language to sogdian after yaghnobi and the yaghnobis are closely genetically related with pashtuns
Lovely place to visit but Uzbekhistan is a lot more of a drag (by that I mean attraction) than the rest. Second I would visit Tajikistan because that kinda feels like a safer and friendlier version of Afghanistan.
Stan' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Sthan'for 'place or land' of somebody. Sanskrit language is the mother of all Indo-europian languages. Even English words like 'mother (matra), 'father (pitra), etc.
If you're wondering about the Germans in Kazakhstan, they're offspring of Volga Germans who were deported to the Kazakh SSR from the Volga German Autonomous SSR. They chose not to return to Germany after the USSR dissolution because of lack of interest since they've assimilated into the culture
Do they speak German still?
Most do speak at least some German, especially as a second language. With elderly Volga Germans typically still speaking it alongside Russian as a fluent first language
My mom is born in Kazakhstan, her grandpa wanted her to speak german all the time. He gave her german books and so an and she had to learn the language... After all, she spoke nothing but russian ;P maybe just a few german basics. After collapse of USSR my parents came to germany, now she finally speaks german, granpa would be proud, haha.
SW50ZXJzdGVsbGFy It’s a shame Russia lost our unique German citizens to Kazakhstan
I see you everywhere.
New info i learned:
Surprisingly, Kazakhstan's southernmost border is closer to SAUDI ARABIA than it is to SaTUrN (hard to believe, i know but it's true)
Wow, you learn something new everyday.
Thanks, Khanubis! 😂
What??
Wow i never knew that lol
I thought it was closer to mars than venezuela hehehe
@@beesgaming233 i thought so too. Well, i guess i was wrong then. Thank you Khanubis for enlightening us with random knowldege we never knew we needed
Ok.
Hahahhahh I knew that that border is not closer to SaTUrN
It's so weird that a lot of people don't know about this place. But in Turkey, everyone knows these countries pretty well since It's kinda our ancient homeland.
Turks usually are quite ignorant about these countries. Most of the things they think they know are just propaganda.
Basecly mongolia but later central asia
@@starkillermiri actually, is central asia, the homeland of the all the turkic nations, not the mongolia
@@neixnneiro7505 yeah wasn't it Turkic and mongol tribes that fought over the the eastern steps, which made some Turkic tribes move even further west when the Mongols united and began expanding? or am I misremembering
@James Roy I introduce you to China north Korea and Russia
Now erdogan is bad yes but not he worst nor the posterchild
Wasn't it Central Asians that first tamed horses and Central Asian nomads that terrorized Rome and China for centuries? Even Alexander the Great fought the Scythians of Central Asia.
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Scythians arent Turkic tho...
@Ksjs Jdjdb naah scythians were of indo iranian stock.They were later assimilated into the turkic world
@Ksjs Jdjdb Dude even the ancient name of the region was aryana vaejah then chorasnia
I mean chorasmia the greeks mention aryan tribes there conquered by alexander namely massagatea and chorasmians
also there are mentions of sakas and even the chinese painting of the people of these region show them to be of indo iranian stock
10/10 best candidate to talk about this region
Normie
@@Cjnw ??? Why ???
0 / 10 RUclips managed to make even this topic boring and demoralizing.
I search central asia vids to get away from all of the demoralizing commercial content.
Now YT is ruining that too.
@@namesnotjoe1394 because its true and alot of people are tired of YTs demoralizing BS
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im thinking he put Mongolia in tibet instead of Mongolia just to piss us off
During the 1640s, "Mongolia" was actually in Tibet.
Nah, Mongotibistaniaran is perfectly normal.
RUclips wants to re write history, and make these videos as boring as possible.
This format is for young people, they're molding and shaping the way the young people think, that's usually the end goal of this boring, demoralizing, 0 content video
@@neverluckym8728 bot
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Russia:
Turkey:
@@janema6828 lol
Kazakhistan
And there wouldn't be any empty space left
Kazakhstan = thicc boi
Uzbekistan = where people actually live
Kyrgyzstan = xbox flag
Tajikistan = Persia number 36.
Turkmenistan = What if hell existed on earth, but white?
Turkmenistan = Turkic version of North Korea 😂
@Orlando Sages half of Uzbekistan is Persian Tajiks.
@@تاجیکپنجشیری 14% only
@@doniyormusayev4957 actually more, just official data is wrong
Afghanistan = Home to the original Central Asians
Kazakhstan actually just hit 19 million people, which was celebrated a few days ago.
Orlando Sages Firstly, no one cares about how your government artificially increases the population numbers, secondly, its r/woosh not w/roosh and its for when someone doesnt get a joke and builds upon this misunderstanding, not for when you try to seem cool but fail.
@@ali.arnasy yeah and it's used on Reddit not on RUclips.
@@ali.arnasy what did he mean? I didn't get it, it's kinda ironic when someone thinks himself smart while whooshing childishly, also, I saw a comment of his saying that native americans are Asians and no one is native to America, you get the point.
apple's lover he just wanted to flex Uzbekistan’s population numbers, saying they’re higher(which is true), but he kinda didn’t do it right, as you can see. There actually are native americans. They are Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Google it, you’ll find information. They’re Called “Ündister” in Kazakh and “Indeitsy” in russian.
Yeah, well, that's "great".
There are like 7.6 billion people on Earth already, so even more people is what we really need........ NOT!!!
Kazakhs themselves hate the new name of the capital, and call it Astana as it should be
Nice to know!
Unfortunately more and more are saying Nur-Sultan 😥 over there though we always try to say Astana for old times sake
As I Kazakh I am fine with both names but I do prefer Astana since I am living there
Isaac Sechslingloff bro, no one says Nur..., just the politicians, newspeople and degenerates.
@@ali.arnasy
Yes^
I am from Uzbekistan, Afghanistan belongs to Central Asia, looking at history, Mavronahr and Khurasan have a very strong cultural history, no one can separate us from our history, Khurasan, I hope we will unite with Khurasan as before and become a center of knowledge as before
Every mid and pre 2000s scholastic articles point to Afghanistan as being central asian or middle eastern not south asian. The ones that say south asian are recent articles because of the south asian fervor to include us like changing wikipedia or when south asians are included in scholastic papers they will include afghanistan as south asian. It causes a chain reaction for other people who dont know much and search and continue to spread that idea. Afghanistan has been very important to central asian history and Uzbek and Tajik history.
thank you for saying this, anyone who knows anything about afghanistan's history will agree it's central asian
The whole region was collectively called Turkestan, which included Xinjiang/Uyghuristan, that's why it's also known as East Turkestan.
Central asia was iranic before the mongol turks came
@@krsn77540 Turkic and Mongolic origin are completely different. While proto-Mongols originated in Eastern Central Asia, Proto-Turks emerged in Siberia.
No, Central Asia has two "countries" before USSR occupation, Turkestan and Bukhara. Bukhara was a large part of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan and Turkestan was the rest of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang. There wasn't a clear border of course, but for the most part that's how it was.
@@krsn77540 as a Chinese, i agree with you, Central Asia has an iranic origin et called Turan,
The five ex-Soviet Central Asian Republics were known as Russian Turkestan during the Tsarist era and Uighur Xinjiang was known as Chinese Turkestan.
I'd love to go to Central Asia - I feel like I have so much left to learn about it
I frequently visit 🙂 its a nice place with nice people just try to avoid being overpriced at shops and hitting on girls in front of guys of the same ethnicity xD
Knowing Russian helps alot
Yeah, I'd like to go see the Darvaza gas crater in person, it looks really cool. Hopefully the leadership isn't too bad, lol.
@@mrbisshie I think theres a lot more to central Asia that that
I'm from Central Asia. It's a pretty nice place.
bring your girl as well.
Fun fact: So much marble was used to build Ashgabat that it was awarded a Guiness World Record.
As Southeast Asian, I agree that we seldom heard about Central Asia but I know all its countries. I also think it's Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 and Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 are the strong force in this region as I was always amazed by the fact that they consistently place in Top 10 or either of them make sure to be in top 5 always in Asian Games. Lowkey countries for sure. I also know that they are related with Turkey culture, correct me if I'm wrong. And yes, they are so underrated region.
in fact, Central Asia is the mixture of iranic people and Turkic people, the sors "stan" is persian origin :)
@@Emilechen Iran mean Aryan, it’s a Race, of course that race spreader from Central Asia as well around 3000 BC
@@tasbykekerey1203 I agree with you, Iran is like China, Perisa is like Han,
and i think that Iran is not just the concept of a race or a nation, but a greater universal cultural community,
in including all Iranic language speaking people, other Caucassian and Turkic people who have been deeply influenced by Iranic civilization,
Tajikistan Afghanistan best central asians
But in terms of being strong i’d say afghanistan because after all afghanistan saved those countries from the soviet trash
Hi everyone , im from Kazakhstan and i wanna say that for us(for kazakhs) capital is Astana , not Nur - Sultan . Couse we hate our dictator vice president .And thank for great video !
P.s. sorry for my English
назарбай котакбас
What do you feel about the change in writing?
Lethean It literally means “capital” in kazakh
salam from malaysia 😀
@Mehmet-Berke Dönmez | LLN what's up bro
*Turanists would like to know your location*
Türkistan 🤘🏼🐺
Persian word
Those guys are fucking nuts.
@@mehrdad5767 thats turkic word now, what u gonna do about it?
@@qokandavalanches6077 lol hhh turkic😮🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦♂️🤦♂️its turaj son of the ferydun king from shahname you take it is from shahname🤣🤣🤣
5:30 the surprisingly large ethnic German population is due to the Soviets' forced resettling of a lot of minorities, including Germans to Siberia, Kazakhstan and other parts of the Soviet Union.
Most ethnic Germans have returned to Germany after 1990 and have been naturalized but politicians back then were surprised by the large number of returning families and made it quite difficult to obtain German citizenship which forced some ethnic Germans to remain in Central Asia. Others of course didn't want to return in the first place because they saw Central Asia as their home. It's easy to understand considering most families had been there for nearly 50 years at that point.
I had the pleasure to work with a lot of Germans that have returned from Kazakhstan and the stories they tell from their old home are astounding and it's surprising that almost no one in my age group is even aware that all of this happened considering we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people that were resettled by the Soviets.
I was hoping you would talk about the Aral Sea and its sad condition nowadays, but I guess that could be a future video or something
Darn,soviets left a surprise to Aral.
@@anotherhumanbeing3923 i hate them
Exactly!
@@Ucmilyaryediyuzellimilyon me too cause I live next to it. There is too much mosquitoes here because sea is drying
@@nora_evans stay safe 🙏🙏
I never knew that Asia is bigger than Los Angeles. Thanks for the information!
1:28 Fun fact: The anthem of Afghanistan has the line "In the chest of Asia" in it.
And I also never heard any educational videos or channel or book that said Afghanistan is in South Asia.
But eh, I donno...
Soleh, in my opinion Afghanistan should be part of Central Asia because over Tajik make up over 25% of the population in Afghanistan. Plus Pashtun speaks a indo-Iranian languages like the Tajik, unlike their neighbour in Pakistan? Punjabi speaks a indo-Aryan language. Plus there’s a popular sport in Central Asia called Buzkashi, this is also popular for the Pashtun, but it isn’t popular amongst the Punjabi’s or Sindhis in Pakistan.
Topher Padilla maybe politically but culturally they aren’t south Asian
Oghuz Dynasty Yet language doesn't matter here, geography does
Soleh Soleh Afghanistan is in South Asia while Iran should be in west Asia
Bayek Of Siwa look at the facts idiot en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia
Love my Turkic brothers and sisters. Love from Turkey
Hello I'm from Kazakhstan, turcik brother
Hello I’m from Kyrgyzstan love you turkey ! 💕💕🇰🇬🇹🇷💕
Turkic dear stoping call turkic 🤦♂️ if u respect !say name dont be lazy damn 📌
@@purpbonz1987 dont lie !!
Hello, I am from Kazakhstan! My turkic brothers :D
🇰🇿❤🇹🇷
Selam Turkic brothers from Turkey
I immediately interested in this place after reading historical manga Otoyomegatari (A Bride's Story).
Geography Now also helped.
I was just about to hunt for comments about A Bride's Story after watching this video, i can' believe i found it so soon!
I see you have great taste, That manga is a maaterpiece!
I read that manga four years ago and the graphic was good.
Yea, over here comment section was full of debates about where story is happening, Kazakhs and Uzbeks in particular lol
@@MenRot are you central asian? if so, what do you think about the manga?
I am from there, (Uzbekistan)
Here everyone saying that Central Asia as forgotten place.Still it's better than being on a news coverage with bad stuff or war like that.They are living quietly and pretty prosperous.I am from Uzbekistan but I'm not there right now but missing home so much
true Turkmenistan gets press for its leaders antics.
I bet you won't come back but only say missing
Borat?
I’m planning on exploring Uzbekistan once everything gets better for travel, great introduction to this beautiful region 🇺🇿
Amazing plan.
We are welcome to all of you
I am uzbek and i can help you to show how UZBEKISTAN is
Would be glad to see you here. I live there
@chistobistrogilamyuvish3051 isn't it true about 20 years ago Uzbekistan market switched from the Defunct Daewoo cars to General Motors Chevrolet model? I think it's very cool, my late father here in the USA always bought and drove Chevys- so I feel a certain kinship there. If I'm not mistaken you are the 3rd largest market after USA and Brazil. Someday if it is willed maybe I shall see Uzbekistan for myself, the pictures are lovely. 😊
Im from Kazakhstan i hope Kazkhstan will have 50 mln population in the future
Hello from a German from Kazakhstan . Thank you for the video . It’s good for a foreigner
Tüm Türk ülkelerine ve vatandaşlarına selam olsun !
🇹🇷🇦🇿🇰🇿🇺🇿🇰🇬🇹🇲
Kara Boga uga buga
Sizga ham salomlar Özbekistan dan
Sizge salam Kazakistannan
Сиз түрктөр эмессиз, биз түпкү түрктөрбүз, биз азиялыктарбыз, сиз хеттериңиздин, гректердин жана Анадолунун түпкү тургундарынын урпактарынын калдыктарысыз, бул өзүңүздү түрк деп эсептеген сизге жетиштүү.
🦅🇰🇬🇰🇿🇹🇲🇺🇿🦅
Selam
I actually went to all of those countries (except Turkmenistan) before all of this corona thing. It certainly was one of my best trips and it is totally worth it.
The place is safe, cheap, and locals are the most friendly people you will ever find!
Wow good. You are welcome. Really Central Asia are simple people with kind heart.
Not much friendly to their citizens but foreigners
Hm. On WikiTravel I read a lot about how it's overly expensive with lots of fleecing and dangerous local corruption.
@@drago939393 that comment was a year ago
@@drago939393 that’s depends where are u from. If it’s expensive, then that corruption is probably in your country too.
Love all Central Asian nations and their amazing cultures and people from Greece 🇬🇷❤️🇰🇿🇰🇬🇺🇿🇹🇲🇹🇯.
Love you too ❤️ from UZBEKISTAN 🇺🇿
Central Asia is the most underrated region in the world. We barely heard this countries, its people, its culture and so on to think that this region is way and far larger than Europe.
Idk like all of Africa is pretty underrated ngl.
Because Central Asia was dependent on Russia until 1991 year from 1920 year (I estimate 1865)
And it is very bad that although in central asia has one language, religion, poetry, history, But they were divided to five countries.
But I'm sure each is lovely, friendly and from what I've seen on RUclips very tasty, spicy cuisine. If it is willed Someday I shall see for myself!😊🎉😊
I'd love to visit Kyrgyzstan once. Mountains, plains and clean air.
Welome
@@barsbekajo.alpsolajokanman2526 welome? U mean welcome???
Yep
@@imalemon3841 don't be an asshole, not everyone obligated to know English. Besides, it could have been a typo
about clean air... we don't have clean air
I used to work for immigration and the people I met from this region were exceptionally polite and friendly, especially the people from Kyrgyzstan.
I really want to go to Uzbekistan someday! I first heard about this nation from ramadhan tv programs in my country when I was 10 years old. I really like the ancient architecture there, so vibrant and fascinating.
When you visit Uzbekistan, you can pilgrimage grave of al-Buxáriy (writer of Hadis)
But his grave is not in Buxárá, it is in Samarkand (old capital of Uzbekistan)
Timur is the only historical figure I know from this region. I had no idea that the inventor of algebra was from here to though, that's pretty crazy that something so important to our world came from such a quiet region of it.
I understand you, I also think about that
Tell you even more, just google these names and read a little about them: Ibn Sino, Mirzo Ulugbek, Ali al-Kushchi, Al-Farobiy, Al-Beruniy, Al-Bukhari. These are just on top of my head :D Once this region was the land of most astonishing thinkers and scientists. In those times, when trading along the Silk Road was flourishing.
lol quiet? Its only been quiet for the past 80 years... before that, crazy shit went down there... perhaps its a good thing
@@shakhzod8583 Queen Tomiri
The things that happened in this region has shaped the whole history of the world soo...
5:35 In Kasachstan are so many people from german origin because our boy Stalin ordered an massiv deportation auf ethnic groups . Thus specifically germans landed in Siberia and Kasachstan.
Most of the Kasachs were cool though.
Dude, you right spelling is Kazakhstan
He should have sent them to #DDR to boost the East German population.
@@ZharkynRazbek He used the german spelling
@@sanzhsn Thank you. You are my wing man !
@@ZharkynRazbek My german spelling.
I serve as a soldier in Germany and have an exchange comrade from Turkmenistan. I love learning more about his homeland from him and cooking with him. It's really hot in his hometown year round, but they eat mostly soups, which we consider more of a wintermeal, to warm you up for example
Salam from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
Nicely summarized, I hope more people will learn about our region, thank you! I come from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 though
Hello, I am Javier, from Barcelona, Spain. Can I visit you this next summer?
@@javieralvarez1072 Kyrgyzstan is perfect in the summer! Be our guest!
@@akbermetmakanbaeva1174 I was wondering in your house...
@@javieralvarez1072ready to convert and propose? Entry bar is high 😂
This region is wild because it’s often considered the most irrelevant or forgotten region of the world but for about all of world history before 1500 it was time and time again the origin point of major players
Thanks for the great video ! Hi everyone from Kyrgyzstan !!! please welcome to visit our Central Asian countries !!
Fun facts:
Kazakhstan was the whole USSR for 4 days
And the first apple came from Almaty, the name of which means "Father of Apples"
5:25 update few days ago Kazakhstan's population reached 19 million people
Interesting fact, The Kyrgyz Epic of Manas is one of the biggest epics in the world
Not one of the, but the biggest in the world
@@nurmuhammadnematov9661 Mahabharata is the largest epic in the world if I'm not wrong
manas is a tale.
I'm telling it as Kyrgyz
@@tanm3yy it depends on the which version of Manas we are talking about. There is three most popular ones, two of them shorter than Mahabharata, but the one is like 2 times longer
Mahabharata is the largest epic... No questions
Wow, I really did not expect, Kazakhstan's southernmost to be closer to Saudi Arabia than to Saturn. #themoreyouknow
I've been to Kyrgyzstan 3 times to visit my long distance girlfriend that lives there. Beautiful country.
Gay
@@474yx who gay?? Come here ! Here real mans!!
1:27 Afghanistan is not considered as part of the ex-Soviet Central Asian states but is more Central Asian than it is South Asian.
Afghanistan is not usually considered as part of South Asia. In some instances such as SAARC it is. And that was only after 2007 or whenever Afghanistan joined that economic group.
The UK tried to make Afghanistan a part of South Asia so Russia couldn't get their hands on it. People like the guy making this video know nothing of actual geography, just whatever propaganda they were fed
The UN geoscheme is wrong. Afghanistan and Iran should be part of Central Asia, their history and culture are Central Asian. Afghans and Iranians also self-indentify their countries as Central Asian countries. Furthermore, Central Asia deserves to have at least one coastal country, it is the only continental subregion in the UN geoscheme comprising only landlocked countries.
Iran is not Central Asian. Iran is Indo-European
@@lb3843 We have got a genius here:)
I'm a western European but have always been amazed about how little we learn about this region
Not every Central Asian country uses Cyrillic alphabet! Uzbekistan already uses Latin as well as Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan switches to it starting from 2025.
The alphabet reform in Uzbekistan was a failure. It's been 20 years, but Uzbeks still use Cyrillic.
да потому что Кириллица лучше
@@andrisk2703 that’s lie. 70% of Uzbekistan uses latinic. More and more people use Latin.
@@irinaivanovna6380 I often come across Uzbek content on the internet that is in Cyrillic. Even here on RUclips many young people who were born after the reform are still using the Cyrillic.
From what I see, it's not 80%, but closer to 50/50. Given the fact it's been nearly 30 years, but there's still such a huge illiteracy in the new script, it's a complete and total failure. The reform was unnecessary and harmful.
@@andrisk2703 nah, it’s about 70%. I’m saying it as a person who can read and understand Uzbek. Why can’t they switch for 30 years? Because that’s not their first target. They are switching but slowly. And probably they can do it until 2025.
I love Central Asia. I’ve been to Turkmenistan and I’m planning on visiting Kazakhstan and staying in Kyrgyzstan for a few months!
In Kazakhstan you should visit Almaty, best city in Central Asia. 8n Kyrgyzstan you should visit Issyk-Kul' lake/region very beautiful and 9ne of the best places to improve your health in the world.
@@Roman-kk1ic I’m in Kyrgyzstan right now!! I’ve been living here for two months. I’m going to Osh next week!
@@ChristianJiang my granny and auntie still live in Issyk-kul' region. I used to spend entire summer holidays there every single year. You so lucky. How do you like it?
@@Roman-kk1ic The lake is so beautiful, really breathtaking!! I’m glad to be here... Such a beautiful scenery. I’m sure that, in March/April, it’ll be even more beautiful
@@ChristianJiang you should visit Almaty
Man mentioned Germans in Kazakhstan but didnt talk bout the Koreans??
He mentioned Germans for an effect of surprise: Look, Germans do live in Central Asia (even though Kazakhstan is partially in Eastern Europe), not Europe only. While Koreans living in Asia is not surprising at all!.
Not koreans most kazakhs are mongolian descendants
@@auga3896 As Kazakh myself (even though IEuropean-llooking), do you think I don't know that Koreans are totally different?! Koreans also live in Kazakhstan (they were deported from North Korea by Stalin not that long time ago in 1930-s) to Kazakhstan. Nowadays they make up only1% of population of Kazakhstan.
@@aleck4490 hi, we don't hear much about Kazakhstan, but it has a pretty good statistics, do you see your country improving?
@@appleslover yeah Kz is pretty good country
Another great video, always so fun and educational. Thank you
Fun fact: Central Asia was once a United country of “Turkistan”. Which thanks to Stalin and co. was divided into uneven borders and Sovereign states even though these countries were highly integrated with each other.. Thus the Autonomous region of “East Turkestan” of Uyghur people, which was quite literally gifted to China by Stalin as a “Commie bro gift”. But yeah these nations could actually form a single Federation, and was one before the Russian invasions.
God willing
lol it wasn't united at all
@@Player100500 It was united before, but for a short amount of time. After russians conquered Uzbek lands, Uzbeks formed a federation of Turkestan, just before revolution of communists. But it only lived for 72 days because russians were invading and at the same time people were not united because some people wanted sharia law and some sided with stinky communists. Thus, it simply ceased to exist.
Kyrgyzstan's most southern point is closer to Saudi Arabia than it is to Saturn.
Cheers for that really helpful fact, it's something I've struggled to understand for some time now.
4:41 Sweden in 2025: "allow me to introduce myself"
Jacob Smith 😂
Jacob Smith :/
@Ayan Tokhtar bad for Christians lol
Muslims make 2% of the population even after the immigrant crisis so...
Oh no migrants
Afghanistan was always considered part of Central Asia. After 9/11, it became part of “Middle East.” Only the British considered Afghanistan part of South Asia. The word Asia is routed in the Iranian word for the Horse lords, the Asiani (Osyani), and they were originally Indo-Iranian. Their modern descendants are the Ossetians who live near the Caucasus. Their language is Eastern Iranian, the same as the Pashtuns aka, the Afghans.
Britain considered Afghanistan part of the Indian subcontinent (learned that reading Sherlock Holmes.) Personally I get the argument for classifying it as Central Asian but it's not a former Soviet State and doesn't have that Russian influence/culture. So I'm cool classifying it as South Asia.
@@theangryholmesian4556 bro who are you to classify Afghanistan as South Asia. Your white English don’t be talking about where Afghanistan is. Afghanistan is always in and will be in Central Asia
@@akayusuf8015 "Who are you to classify Afghanistan as South Asia" not me mate take it up with geographers.
Afghanistan is both south and central, there is Tajiks, hazaras, Uzbeks, pahstuns living in afghan,
Tajiks hazara Uzbeks makes 50% of Afghanistan and these people r central, and pahstuns makes another 50% of Afghanistan and these people r south Asian
Central Asia is the large, but sparse area of the world. If it were a family, Kazakhstan would be the good old gramps, Mongolia would be the grandma with the old story of crossing multiple countries to school (code word: success), Uzbekistan would be the more loved sibling and the others re the kids often forgotten. May be you should connotate Genghis Khan and the cities more. And the Kyrgyzstan flag is a gamer's delight!
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Shout out to KhAnubis for making this video! Well-researched and interesting!
ExploroTerra Mongolia is not in Central Asia or related to central asians you idiot
@@mlgdigimon That's a stupid statement.
MLGdigimon pretty sure mongolia is related to the whole of asia but go on
@@mlgdigimon Mongolia partly is in Central Asia, have you ever seen a map?
@@Roman-kk1ic No it isnt, do you even know what central asia is?
Darvaza crater? Their cool leader did doughnuts around that thing to prove he was alive
Based
From Indiana in USA love geography and learning about the Turkic people's of central Asia
I was really rooting for Tashkent, Uzbekistan to host for 2030 Asian Games but instead they were given by OCA the 2025 Asian Youth Games. More for Central Asia hosting please and not just East Asia, SEA, & MiddleEast always!
Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job 👊🏻👊🏻🎉🎉👊🏻
Great video! A quick and good summary of the region! 😊
Afghanistan is part of central Asia for sure. Afghanistan has nearly 50% Tajik/Uzbek/turkik ethnicities, and the other main ethnicity (Pashtun) isn't South Asian either
Afghans look Caucasoid
I'm pretty sure Iran is more West Asia than South Asia
And afghanistan central asia
Persians have more in common genetically with India than to arabs. Only religion and alphabet unites Iran to ME
China is more Eastern than Turkey
@@osobori Are you from Iran?
@@osobori Culture is more relevant than genetics
dude you're hilarious. I love how you transition into your jokes so calmly
Actually wanted to go there this summer but Corona fucked up my plans
:c
Damn chinese,they also caused trouble to central asia in history...
Dont really laugh at puns or jokes in RUclips videos but the Saudi Arabia-saturn joke got me
I was surprised someone talked about Kazakhstan with out saying "is nice"
I've been to Kazakhstan and I can say that the country is amazing and the people are really friendly
@@Sara_9_9_ I'm absolutely sure it is! Not gonna disagree there
Is it improving? Am asking because I love statistics and Kazakhstan's are pretty good,in general
@@appleslover Yes.
As Kazakh I am really surprised too :)
For the longest time I thought Kazakhstan was more populous than Uzbekistan... You really learn something new every day!
Bigger land area doesn't necessarily mean bigger population
Hey , could u plz make a video on how Central Asia got independence ? I googled this but couldn’t find a better answer .
Hey man. Kazakhstani here. Been watching you for a while. Glad you gave us some attention. If any of you have questions, I can answer here, or you can visit the subreddit I frequent, r/AskCentralAsia.
Hey Alen if you are a real Kazakh and no Russian I habe an question . You know that Kazakhs are also turks like the turkish people from turkey . I'm also a turkish Person and of cousengs I see all other Turkig people like Kazakhs fir example as Brothers baute my question ist do Kazakhs also see There selbes as turks ? Tnaks for answering :D
@@starkillermiri We Kazakhs all consider ourselves Turkic (not Turks, those are distinctly denizens of the Republic of Turkey), and we acknowledge our shared linguistic history, especially I, as a language nerd. Though other Kazakhs feel more kinship with Russians. While I don't feel that as much, and Turkish language is interesting for me, pan-Turkism ideas are not at all interesting.
@Vienna The culture and language are indeed damaged by the Soviet policies, with Kazakhs becoming Russified to an extent, however, I believe this situation is fixable with enough time and effort. Russians living in here are not the ones responsible for Soviet policies, so they are considered friends due to half a century of shared history. The only thing that bothers me is the complete disregard Kazakhstani Russians show towards Kazakh language, which hinders its popularity with Kazakhs themselves.
"Kazakhstani" you mean kazakh/qazaq lmao
@@aslanfromnarnia339 I'm quite conscious about what I write. Kazakh/Qazaq is ethnicity. A Kazakh can be a citizen of Russia and he's still Kazakh. Kazakhstani is a citizen of Kazakhstan, which includes every ethnic Russian and other citizens.
Hello to all my central asian Brother from a Turkey Turk ❤❤❤
You turks think you are turkic but we central asians dont want yall
@@krsn77540 excuse me I didn't unerstand . What did you mean ?
@@krsn77540 Probably a Russian speaking about Turkic people. There is no such thing as a pure race we are all mixed up like them what is important is our common roots and history. And ı've been to Turkey they look similar to Turkmens.
@@eyllengul im uzbek
@@krsn77540 It ıs worse a central asian talking bad towards other turkic people. Metehan would spit on your face. Luckily Anatolian Turks don't need people like you.Me and other Turkmens will always support them no matter what. I am also glad that there is not so many ignorant people like you in Uzbekistan you are extraordinary in a bad way.
We ‘Stan’ Central Asia!!!
We stan for stanistan
@@appleslover Drew Durnil
KYRGYZ REPUBLIC ! OFFICIAL NAME 🇰🇬📌
soon enough they all get rid of that cringe stan suffix
Yes Quite Informative Thanks for making this video... I also want to explore the Central and Western Asian Country in my future....
Perhaps they can form Stanstan one day😂
Ah yes, Landland
USA plans an Oilstan 😛
@@Cjnw lol there's more oil in the middle East through
Stanistan
Stannis shall rule.
Very informative. Believe me, I know a lot more now than before I watched it. Definitely places to visit before you die. Great job, thanks for sharing.
0:25 Saying this is also a generalisation to the USA, in the UK "Asian" almost always will mean the area you call South Asia, India, Pakistan etc. Likely due to the cultural an migrational ties between the UK and this area caused by that area being British for so long.
From growing up in the UK. Asian almost always meant South Asian and West Asian to me. So its weird when people on the Internet (usually americans) insist Im not Asian but Middle Eastern or Desi. Or that these regions arent Asian but the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent.
Especially since Asia and Asian originates for what the Greeks called the land and people beyond the Aegean Sea (aka Turkey and West Asia)
Always wanted to see a video like this one
Thank you!
AW YEAH a video dedicated to a somewhat obscure and little-discussed region of the world. I am here for this.
Still obscure even after the video.
Really cool subject, thank you for shedding light on these fascinating countries!
2:33 LET'S CREATE A KHANUBIS KHANATE!!!! WHERE CAN ALL KAZAKH GERMANS CAN LIVE!!!!
by the way, extremely love this video
They arent Kazakh germans,they are Volga germans
@@anotherhumanbeing3923 Who are Volga Germans
@@hanuchopra7768 germans that teached russian about culture , "Volga" name of lake
@@era6519 Volga is a river
Kazakhstan had over 2 million germans back in the day and they weren't just Volga germans, they were from all over Russia and nazis sent away to do hard labor
Very good, well presented video with humour thrown in for extra effect! :-)
Astana-
*NUR-SULTAN*
Did I miss anything? Why he changed it
Central asia is the personification of the underrated term.
3:27 short history? I love americans' view on other countries. It's often oversimplified and ignorant. I think you should do your research better and stop skipping important historical facts. Turkic history goes way back before so called mongol empire and existed before some european cultures, let alone america. We had quite complex history with a lot of migrations. Our rulers are not limited to Tamerlan and Chinghis Khan, we had way more, all of which were of turkic origin with huge influence over european, russian, chinese and persian land. My point is either do better research or don't feature cultures you know nothing about at all.
Dude,c'mon,i think he is joking
Your name is awesome.
Lmao at all this Turkic misplaced "pride"
As an American who has had a lifelong fascination and education in history and anthropology, and at least a cursory understanding of the pre-history and history of the Turkic peoples, all I can say is you are completely correct, although you are obviously stepping on a misplaced American pride in our being smugly ignorant about anything not about us.
@_𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜_ Im American. Our culture is definitely distinct from European cultures. We aren't the same people anymore.
0:04 ... I thought it was going to April fools again.
Great video. I find central Asia very interesting
thank you for making this video!
- an american-born uzbek-turkmen :)
U r mixed of Uzbek n Turkmen?
My from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 👌
We stan the stans 👏
They are very "Stunned". 🙂🙂
Thank you for this overview. I got interested in this region while I was learning about the mongols and the silk road. I'm also very interested in ancient Bactria, which is a close neighboor.
Woow very nice. I wish you the best. I am from Tajikistan, here lived Bacrians and Soghdians. Only Soghdian language is not died and in Yaghnobians speaks in Soghdian language.
bactria is ancient Afghanistan the pashtuns are descendants of ancient aryans bactrians and scythians sources say that pashto is the second closest spoken language to sogdian after yaghnobi and the yaghnobis are closely genetically related with pashtuns
Fun fact: this region was lonely planet’s best
travel region in 2020 at the beginning of the year; we all know how that went.
This region is so underrated, it's one of my favorites.
What a very interesting video
A famous Muslim scholar named al-Bukhari was from Uzbekistan
@Orlando Sages
It's not Part Of Uzbek history
It's Part of Region history ( Khwarzm)
Amazing. Thank u😃 GOD BLESS U😇 I could imagine how the richness of complexity the mixture of its culture could be! It is mind boggling. 😇🙂😇
Lovely place to visit but Uzbekhistan is a lot more of a drag (by that I mean attraction) than the rest. Second I would visit Tajikistan because that kinda feels like a safer and friendlier version of Afghanistan.
Agreed
Stan' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Sthan'for 'place or land' of somebody. Sanskrit language is the mother of all Indo-europian languages. Even English words like 'mother (matra), 'father (pitra), etc.