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EXTENT OF THE
CONTINENTAL MAINLAND:
South end of the Malay
Peninsula to Cape Chelyuskin in
Siberia
Westernmost Point: Cape Baba
in Northwest Turkey
Area: 17, 176, 102 sq. mi. (44, 485, 900 sq. km.)
Population: estimate of 4 billion
km (5,
Highest Point: Mt. Everest, China-Nepal (29, 028 ft. above sea level)
Lowest Point: Dead Sea, Israel-Jordan (1, 312 ft. below sea level)
Largest Country: (by area) Russia (excluding European portion, 4, 845,
580 sq. mi)
Largest Country: (by population) China: estimate of 2 billion
Largest Metropolitan Area(s): (by population)
Tokyo, Japan
Bombay, India
Shanghai, China
Longest Rivers:
Yangtze (Chiang Jiang)
Yenisey-Angara (Russia)
Largest Lakes:
Caspian Sea (Asia-Europe)
Baikal (Russia)
Largest Desert:
Gobi (China-Mongolia)
NORTHERN ASIA
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CENTRAL ASIA
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SOUTHERN ASIA
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October to March, winter monsoon , a much lighter wind , blows from the North over the
Himalayas, bringing cool, dry weather
SOUTH-EASTASIA
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EAST ASIA
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SOUTHWEST ASIA
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hot,
and
Ob
River
Yenisey
River
Lena
River
Amur
River
Aral
Sea
Lake
Baikal
Tatan
Strait
Ural
Mountai
ns
ENTRAL ASIA:
- Gobi Desert
- Altai
Mountains
- Mt. Everest
- Takla
Makan
Desert
- Kunlun
Mountains
- Tibetan
Plateau
EAST
ASIA:
Huan
g Ho
Yangt
ze
River
Gang
gaShan
Moun
tain
Yello
w Sea
China
Sea
Mt.
Fuji
SOUTH-EAST
ASIA:
- Mekong
River
- Irrawadd
y River
- Salween
River
- Tonkin
Gulf
- Sunda
Strait
- Chao
Phraya
River
- Red River
- Gulf of
Thailand
- Strait of
Malacca
SOUTH
ASIA:
SOUTHWEST
ASIA:
Dead Sea
Caspian Sea
Taurus
Mountains
Rub-AlKhali Desert
Tigris-
Ganges
River
Indus
River
Brahma
putra
River
Bay of
Bengal
Great
Indian
Desert
Hindu
Kush
Mountai
ns
Karakor
am
Mountai
ns
E&W
Ghats
Euphrates
River
Zagros
Mountains
Syrian
Desert
Persian Gulf
Gulf of
Oman
Asia is so immense that there is certainty that many areas rich in mineral resources
remain undiscovered
CENTRAL ASIA
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largely unexplored
gold, iron and other metals are mined there together with coal and petroleum
EASTERN ASIA
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rich in coal, large deposits of mineral ores (iron ore, antimony and tungsten)
smaller amounts of petroleum
SOUTHWEST ASIA
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SOUTH ASIA
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SOUTHEAST ASIA
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relatively plentiful are bauxite (aluminum ore), gold, lead, nickel, tin and zinc
Best Agricultural Lands: South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, and the southwestern part of
Siberia
two chief subsistence crops: rice and wheat
Rice: needs warmth and plenty of rain; so it grows more in areas affected by monsoon.
Largest crops of rice are produced in China and the drier parts of India
importation of wheat from North America due to failure to produce enough crops
Export
crops:
India, Sri Lanka and China-most of the worlds tea
Malaysia and Indonesia-rubber (introduced from Brazil in the 1870s)
Other important crops: cotton, citrus fruits, jute and tobacco
East Indies: most of the worlds spices (Spice Islands)
LAND USE IS VERY UNEVEN IN ASIA. Half of the worlds people live in six Asian countries: China,
India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan and Bangladesh but huge areas of Central Asia and the Arabian
Peninsula are almost uninhabited (desert or semi-desert)
THE ASIAN WAY OF LIFE
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MONGOLOID
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Hinduism
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Buddhism
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from Hinduism
began in 500 BCE
spread eastwards to China and Japan
Confucianism
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originated in China
Shintoism
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Judaism
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Christianity
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Islam
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originated in Japan
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founded in 600 CE
major religion of Southwest Asia and
parts of South and Southeast Asia
India is largely Hindu
Chinas people are either Buddhist,
Confucian or a mixture of many
religions
Siberias populace are mostly nominal
Christians
Asian way of life dependent on tradition, religion and even the physical characteristics of
the peoples homeland
Southwestern to Central Asia (belt of dry, semi-arid land)
many people are nomadic herdsmen tending herds of such animals as goats, sheep,
camels, cattle and yaks
In the oil rich regions, people adopted a more western way of life
High performing Asian countries mostly found in East Asia (Japan, Hongkong-China,
Singapore and South Korea)
considered as NICs are Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand
poverty stricken countries: Philippines, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia
Population increase, side by side with economic boom (problem: slum areas, increasing
urban crime, prostitution, severe pollution, traffic etc.)
most populous cities of the world found in Asia
Asia is seen to become a region of megacities
about 70% of Asian people still live in the country side (centered on the village, whether
it is in forest clearing, river valleys or upland plain)