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Kyzyl City Info
Kyzyl is situated on the Yenisei River. Most development is south of the river and follow the curves of the river, with the highest development centered where the two headstreams of the Yenisei, the Bolshoi Yenisei and the Malyy Yenisei, meet.Kyzyl claims to be located exactly in the geographical center of Asia. Whether these coordinates are in fact the center of Asia is disputed. However, there is a monument labelled "Centre of Asia" in English, Russian, and Tuvan which asserts this claim. Supposedly a marker was originally placed somewhere in or near Kyzyl by a European explorer in the early twentieth century, although this is also uncertain.