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This road in the Ishkashim District was constructed in 2010.

arid: an overly dry region with not enough rainfall to support farming Silk Road: a network of trade routes that connected the East and West, from China to the Mediterranean Sea socioeconomic: a measurement of a combination of educational status, financial standing, and occupation steppe: a treeless, flat expanse of land found in Europe or Asia that has a specific set of meteorological values: very cold and dry with little snow

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