Soviet Central Asia

Soviet Central Asia

Area	4,003,451 km2 (1,545,741 sq mi)
Demonym	Central Asian, Soviet
Countries	Soviet Union 5 Republics Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Languages	Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, and Others
Time zones	2 time zones UTC+05:00: Standard: Kazakhstan (5 regions), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan UTC+06:00: Standard: Kazakhstan (4 cities, 9 regions), Kyrgyzstan
Internet TLD	.su, .kg, .kz, .tj, .tm, .uz
Calling code	Zone 9 except Kazakhstan (Zone 7)
Largest cities	List[a] Alma-Ata Ashkhabad Frunze Dushanbe Karaganda Namangan Samarkand Shymkent Tashkent Tselinograd
UN M49 code	143 – Central Asia 142 – Asia 001 – World
^ With population over 500,000 people

Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya 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.