Everyone knows that Siberia is part of the territory of the Russian Federation (and most of it). And they heard about her countless riches, and about the beauties, and about the significance for the country - most likely, too. But where exactly Siberia is located, many find it difficult to answer. Even the Russians will not always be able to show it on the map, not to mention foreigners. And even more difficult will be the question of where Western Siberia is located, and where its eastern part is.
Geographical location of Siberia
Siberia is called a region that combines many administrative and territorial units of Russia - regions, republics, autonomous okrugs and territories. Its total area is approximately 13 million square kilometers, which is 77 percent of the entire country. A small part of Siberia belongs to Kazakhstan.
To understand where Siberia is located, 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 go down "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 north-eastern part of the Eurasian continent. In the west, it ends at the foot of the Ural Mountains, in the east it is limited to Oceanic ridges. The north of Mother Siberia "flows" into the Arctic Ocean, and the south abuts against the rivers: Lena, Yenisei and Ob.
And all this space rich in natural resources and inexhaustible paths is usually divided into Western Siberia and Eastern Siberia.
Where is Western Siberia located? Geographical position
The western part of Siberia extends 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). And it also includes the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Altai Territory, the Altai Republic, Khakassia and the western part of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
