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The article deals with a direction in mathematical physics connected with strongly perforated domains and related matters. Since the general setting of the problem is still not sufficiently defined, the authors study some particular case, namely a diffusion equation on a Riemannian manifold which consists of several copies of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (\(n>2\)) with a large number \(N(\varepsilon)\) of small holes whose boundaries are glued in some special manner. The asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the Cauchy problem as \(\varepsilon \to 0\), \(N(\varepsilon)\to \infty\) is investigated. It is shown that the ``averaged'' diffusion on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) can have several components or can be nonlocal, with memory of the topological structure of the original manifold, etc. Some particular cases of manifolds of different topological structures are given for which the coefficients of ``averaged'' diffusion equations can be calculated explicitly.