Mongoloid


 
 

Mongoloid (or less often, and incorrectly, Sinoid) is a racial classification including peoples of North Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, parts of South Asia, the Pacific Oceania, the Americas, Greenland, and even a few of Eastern Europe. Earlier terms include "Mongolian race" and Asiatic. Some definitions have not included Native Americans.


 

North Asia: North Asia is a subregion of Asia. It usually consists entirely of Siberia, which lies in the Asian part of Russia, although by some definitions, not all of Siberia is part of North Asia....

Central Asia: Central Asia (Russian: ??????? ????/"Srednyaya Azia" for "Middle Asia" or ??????????? ????/"Tsentrallnaya Azia" for "Central Asia"; Mandarin Chinese: ??/ pinyin: "Zh?ngy?"; Arabic: pending/"Asya al Wsta") is a vast landlocked region of Asia. Though various definitions of its exact composition exist,...

East Asia: East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically, it covers about 6,640,000 km², or 15% of the Asian continent. Culturally, it embraces those societies that are part of the Chinese cultural sphere, displaying heavy historical influenc...

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Introduction
Usage of the word
Geographic range
Peoples in the Mongoloid race
Characteristic features
Genetic history
See also
 


 

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