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Texts about Kyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan country studies, the World Fact Book’s Kyrgyzstan, and wikipedia.

Pictures and photos on Hans Rossel, on webshots, on trekshare, on Igo Ugo, on Registan.net, on Galen Frysinger, on advantour, on infohub, on superstock.

Linked also with Gulnara Derbisheva – Kyrgyzstan, with Byubyusara Ryskulova – Kyrgyzstan, with Asipa Musayeva – Kyrgyzstan, with Raisa Kadyrova – Kyrgyzstan, with Aziza Abdirasulova – Kyrgyzstan, and with Tolekan Ismailova – Kyrgyzstan.

Pictures, fotos, maps from Kazakhstan on Google images.

Photos from Kazakhstan on ‘photos around the world‘, on Advantour.com, on igougo.com, on trekearth, on my travel guide, on infohub, on galenfrysinger.com, on herwigphoto, on orex.ca., on superstock, on webshots.
The official website of Almaty in Kazakh, in Russian and in English. Together with its photo exposures, its city map (in russian), and its latest news (in english).

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Almaty with suburbs.

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Almaty, some center.

The Kazakhstan country studies, the World Fact Book’s Kazakhstan page, and also Google Earth, Almaty, Kazakhstan & Central Asia on wikipedia.

Look at the latest pictures on People’s Daily online photogallery, as for example:

New oilfield found in Bohai Bay;

Albania vow to strengthen parliamentary exchanges;

China launches communications satellite for Nigeria;

Farmer’s strange bird: A farmer displays a Northern Eagle Owl ( Bubo bubo), an endangered bird under the State’s second-grade protection facing extinction in Zaozhuang, East China’s Shandong Province May 10, 2007. (newsphoto).

Links: China country studies, and the World Fact Book’s China page.

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. . Re-opened girls school in Afghanistan. Pictures picked up at ZDF-TV.

. . Two pics out of the web.

. . left: Kabul City, right: Kabul Center. By Earth Google

More photos:

on MythingLinks.org; on Afghanistan’s Landscapes; on neatorama.com; on pics of Kabul; on Afghanistan old photos; on Monster-Pictures; on photo-search; on Luke Powell Photographs; on afghana.com; on yahoo.news; and on Afghanistan on CNN.com.

Links: Afghanistan country studies, and the World Fact Book’s Afghanistan pages.

Videos: 33 minutes of music, songs & dance; and Vacationing in Afghanistan, 9.42 minutes.

Linked with Line of Control LoC.

Pictures of Kashmir: go to the Belgian Association for Solidarity with Jammu and Kashmir BASJAK, scroll down to ‘New Updated Photo Gallery’, and click on one of the 12 links, to see many photos on each.

See also pictures and photos:

• on webshots: blue sapphire, and jewels;
• on Ladakh Himalaya: Pictures by QT Luong, and Padum to Phuktal, Zanskar;
• on Acclaim Images;
• on Fotosearch;
• on Zackvision;
• on The Photo Woman;
• And: Indian’s art & culture web-directory.

The following pictures show Kashmir and are made out of Earth-Google. The places surrounded with a red line are Pakistani Kashmir (north), and Indian Kashmir (south), between is the orange division line:

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. . From Iran to China, via Kashmir, by Earth Google.

. . From Turkey to Kyrgyzstan by Earth Google

. . The classic Central Asian States (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan) by Earth Google.

. . India controlled Kashmir by Earth Google.

. . Pakistan controlled Kashmir by Earth Google.

. . Aksai – the China controlled part of Indian Kashmir, by Earth Google

. . Srinagar in its valley, by Earth Google.

. . Srinagar and the Dal Lake, by Earth Google.

. . Srinagar Center by Earth Google.

. . With the railway from Kathua to Jammu, by Earth Google.

. . Jammu in the plain valley, and its beginning hills, by Earth Google.

. . Jammu Center by Earth Google.

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Pictures and photos from Tadjikistan:
on TrekEarth; on CAC biodiversity.org; on UNjobs (click on the files); on lonely machines.org; on travel images; on flickr; on realtravel; on webshots; again on webshots; and on a third webshots-Tadjikistan; on Tadjikistan update; on nature photo-cz.com; on Tropix Photo Library; on traveljournals.net;

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The main Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan) by Earth Google. Kashmir (of Pakistan and India) has red frontiers.

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Tadjikistan by Earth Google.

Blog: Dushanbe pictures;

and a book in french: Christophe de Ponfilly, Femmes d’Asie Centrale, arte editions 2004 (tells today’s women life conditions in Tadjikistan).

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Dushanbe, capital of Tadjikistan, by Earth Google.

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Dushanbe Center by Earth Google.

More Maps:
on SuperTravelNet.com; on Dushanbe; on geocities (click on the files).

Links: Tajikistan country studies, and  the World Fact Book’s page of Tajikistan.

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The Mumbai-Island. Kandivali is left of Thana, on the other side of the green hill.
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Great Kandivali.

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The grey surfaces are the roofs of slum-constructions.

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Here a slum is deconstructed, already new constructed big buildings are seen behind.