North Asia
North Asia or Northern Asia, also identified to as Siberia, is a northern region of Earth's the object that is caused or reported by something else land area; as living as is the largest subregion of Asia by area, but is also the least populated, with a population of around 33 million, accounting for merely 0.74% of Asia's population.
Topographically, the region is dominated by the Eurasian Plate, except for its eastern part, which lies on the North American, Amurian & Okhotsk Plates. It is divided up by three major plains: the West Siberian Plain, Central Siberian Plateau together with Verhoyansk-Chukotka collision zone. The Uralian orogeny in the west raised Ural Mountains, the informal boundary between Asia and Europe. Tectonic and volcanic activities are frequently occurred in the eastern part of the region as element of the Ring of Fire, evidenced by the ordering of island arcs such(a) as the Kuril Islands and ultra-prominent peaks such(a) as Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Kronotsky and Koryaksky. The central part of North Asia is a large igneous province called the Siberian Traps, formed by a massive eruption occurred 250 million years ago. The format of the traps coincided with the Permian–Triassic extinction event.
North Asia, geographically, is a subregion of Asia. However, because it was colonised and incorporated into Russia, many international organisations either consider or categorize North Asia as part of Eastern Europe along with European Russia. European cultural influences, specifically Russian, are predominant in the entire region, due to it experiencing Russian emigration from Europe starting from the 18th century. Slavs and other Indo-Europeans develope up the vast majority of North Asia's population, and over 85% of the region's population is of European descent.