Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Mongolia

Nepal

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Russia

Eurasia

Belarus

Europe

India

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Cambodia

Southeast Asia

Iran

Turkey

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation members, observers, and dialogue partners. Member states (black) include Russia and China. Observer states (yellow) include India, Iran, and Afghanistan. Dialogue partners (blue) include Turkey and Cambodia.

Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a political, economic, and security organization created in 2001

Countries

World

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

South Korea

Macau S.A.R. (China)

North Korea

Taiwan

Distribution of language families: Indo-European in North and South America (blue), Niger-Congo in Sub-Saharan Africa (purple), Afro-Asiatic in North Africa and Middle East (black), Sino-Tibetan in China (brown), and Altaic in Central Asia (orange).

The predominant language families of East Asia. Language families are groups of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language.

Language Families

nature

Anthropogenic Biomes

Areas at Risk of Soil Degradation

Average Annual Precipitation

Biomes

Climate Zones

Global Mean Temperature, January

Global Mean Temperature, July

Global Surface Warming: Worst-Case Projections (NASA)

Insolation

Land Cover

Major Soil Orders

Prevailing Agricultural Practices

World Elevations

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation	Language Families
Value	Mongolian	Uigur and other Turkic languages	Tribal languages of eastern Taiwan	Japanese	Korean	Gan	Mandarin	Min (including Fujianese and Taiwanese)	Tibetan	Wu (including Shanghaiese)	Xiang	Yue (Cantonese)	Zhuang






	3.96%	1.10%	26.7%	60.3%	57.5%	1.53%	56.9%	72.3%	18.5%	1.52%	2.03%	3.31%	1.42%