The Coverage Accorded Central Asia and Afghanistan in the Encyclopaedia Iranica is remarkably broad. No significant aspect—geography, history, the economy, society, or culture—has been neglected, while the articles on the Iranian religious, economic, and cultural presence in China summarize existing scholarship and suggest new avenues of investigation. Taken together, the articles on Afghanistan provide an assessment of its unique place within the Iranian world, while those on Central Asia and China evaluate the importance of Iranian influences and trace the fate of Iranian peoples and cultures. Numerous articles stand as original contributions to their respective subjects and contain up-to-date and, in many cases, exhaustive bibliographies.