ཤར་གླིང་དབུས་མ

Tibetan

Etymology

Noun

ཤར་གླིང་དབུས་མ • (shar gling dbus ma)

  1. (geopolitics) Middle East (the geopolitical region at the intersection of Asia, Africa and Europe, comprising West Asia excluding the South Caucasus and additionally including all of Egypt and all of Turkey)
  2. Central Asia (a landlocked geographic area of continental central Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)