Beringia

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US/bəˈɹɪnd͡ʒiə/

proper noun

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.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. 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.

    Note that, while not in Alaska, one site from the adjacent Yukon Territory has been included as well; it, too, would have been within easter Beringia during the last glaciation.

    2006, Michael R. Bever, “Too Little, Too Late? The Radiocarbon Chronology of Alaska and the Peopling of the New World”, in American Antiquity
  2. All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
beringland

Origin

From Bering + -ia, coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937.

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Translations

Catalan Beríngia
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French Béringie
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German Beringia
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Korean 베링 육교
  • 베링 육교 (bering yukgyo)Translations
Polish Beringia
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Russian Берингия
  • Берингия (Beringija)Translations
Cite this entry
APA

Beringia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Beringia

MLA

“Beringia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Beringia. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Beringia,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Beringia.

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