Cities of Central Asia (World)

Cities of Central Asia (World) collects this atlas's city entities that sit within the Central Asia subregion of the United Nations M49 standard, region code 143. The UN Statistics Division's M49 overview page assigns these places to Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This group node anchors every atlas city already tied to one of those Central Asian countries, from historic Silk Road centers such as Samarkand and Bukhara to present day national capitals such as Almaty, Bishkek and Ashgabat, so a reader can browse the region's urban settlements as one connected set instead of hunting country by country through the atlas's own country listing.