more properly Tatary, a name applied with some degree of indefiniteness to a vast region of Central Asia, sometimes also to a part of Eastern Europe. In its widest sense, the name is applied to the whole country, from the sea of Japan on the east to the Dnieper on the west, and includes Manchooria, Mongolia, Koondooz, Bukhara, and Khiva, the Kirghiz territories, and the Russian governments between the Caspian and the Dnieper. Each of these divisions is described under its appropriate head; the Kirghiz territories and other Russian possessions, under Russia. Some geographers restrict Tartary entirely to Asia, and make the Caspian its western boundary. It has on the north Siberia, and on the south China, Tibet, India, Afghanistan, and Persia. The name Tartary or Turkestan is properly applicable only to the western part of this vast region, which is peopled by the true Tartars or Turks, and was their original seat.