Beringia

== English == === Etymology === From Bering +‎ -ia, coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /bəˈɹɪnd͡ʒiə/ === Proper noun === Beringia The Bering land bridge, a geographical phenomenon roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide (north to south) at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages; the land bridge previously occupying what is now the Bering Strait. All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada ==== Derived terms ==== Beringian ==== Related terms ==== Beringland ==== Translations ====