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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPPES  ,

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GENERAL-GOVERNORSHIP OF, a portion of
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Russian Central
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Asia which includes both what was formerly known as the
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Kirghiz
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Steppe, and the region around
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Omsk, which was formerly
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part of Western
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Siberia . It consists of four provinces:
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Akmolinsk,
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Semipalatinsk,
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Turgai and
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Uralsk, having a
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total
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area of 711,000 sq. m. and a total
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population of 2,472,931 in 1897 . Details are given under the names of the provinces respectively . Omsk is the
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capital .

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