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The ecoregion stretches 1,500 km, from the Belukh Range of the Altai mountains on the Russia-Kazakhstan border in the northwest, to the Gobi-Altai in
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1328:List of ecoregions in Russia
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1338:List of ecoregions in China
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1310:Mönkhkhairkhan Mountain
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1508:Palearctic ecoregions
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1279:Protections
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127:Coordinates
1497:Categories
1481:January 5,
1459:January 5,
1437:January 5,
1349:References
1292:Zapovednik
1261:Lagomorpha
192:Kazakhstan
108:Kazakhstan
65:Palearctic
206:, with a
180:ecoregion
96:Countries
83:Geography
1317:See also
1300:Ob River
1228:Pyrenees
1218:breviloa
1216:Anabasis
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196:Mongolia
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