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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Verkhoyansk Range, Zashiversk, Pleistocene Park, Bennett Island, East Siberian Railway, Administrative divisions of the Sakha Republic, M56 Kolyma highway, Far Eastern Railway, National Anthem of the Sakha Republic, Yhyakh, Yakut Revolt, Bolshoy Begichev Island, Dunay Islands, Peschanyy Island, M56 Lena highway, Brusneva Island, Khatanga Gulf, Medvezhyi Islands, Suntar-Khayata Range, Anabar Bay, Yana Bay, Flag of the Sakha Republic, Muostakh Island, Shelonsky Islands, Kolesovsky Islands, Nordvik Bay, Olonkho, Makar Island, Yarok Island, Preobrazheniya Island, Leykina Island, Olenyok Gulf, Buor-Khaya Gulf, Khromskaya Bay, Abaasy, Chersky, Lena Pillars, Salkay Island, Kolyma Bay, Cape Buor-Khaya, Omulyakhskaya Bay, Logashkino, Ebelyakh Bay, Sannikov Strait, Yakutugol, Dzhugdzhur Mountains, Mus-Khaya Mountain, Nezhdaninskoye, Tiksi Bay, Music in the Sakha Republic, Krasnoyarmyy Strait, Shokalsky Strait, Uorullubut kus, Malakatyn-Tas, Manday. Excerpt: The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: , tr. Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), IPA: Sakha: , Sakha Respublikata) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). Its population mainly consists of ethnic Yakuts and Russians. Comprising half of the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the largest subnational governing body by area in the world at 3,103,200 km (1,198,200 sq mi) (just smaller than India which covers an area of 3,287,240 km). It has a population of fewer than one million inhabitants. Its capital is Yakutsk. The Turkic Sakha people or Yakuts probably settled in the area in the 13th and 14th centuries, migrating north from the Lake Baikal area to the middle Lena. According to their own traditional accounts, the Sakha were driven out of their earlier homeland by the Buryats. From their new center along the middle Lena they gradually expanded northeast and west beyond the ...
