Central Asia consists of a <u>4,003,451 km square area and has a population of 71,982,775.</u> Being an extremely wide region with well-defined geography with vast desert land and mountainous terrain. Most of this area is too rugged for farming.
It also has some geographic extremes like the Eurasian pole of inaccessibility.
Worlds shorted distance between the non-frozen desert and permafrost: 770 km.
The world's northernmost desert located in Mongolia. and southernmost permafrost, also at Mongolia. It's not buffed with a large body of water as the areas are the dry and continental type of climate thus it has coldest winters like Kazakhstan -4 °C and -19 °C.
