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West Eurasia is an area bounded by the Sahara and the Indian Ocean to the south, the Atlantic to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north. West Eurasia thus covers West Asia and Europe, though North Africa is also sometimes included as part of West Eurasia. Significant movements of people have entered the region from the East across the steppes. Nonetheless, the steppes have, for much of history, been lowly populated and so the interaction of West Eurasia with East Eurasia had been mostly indirect, except for West Asia which did have more direct contacts with India and China.