ASIA
{..................Physiography............................}
- It has 48 countries.
- Latitude 10°S and 80° N .
- Longitude 25° E and 170° W
- Oceans and Seas :
Arctic ocean , Pacific ocean , Indian ocean , read ocean , Gaulf of Aden , Persian Gulf , Gulf of Oman ,Arabian sea , Bay of Bengal , China sea , Yellow sea of Okhotsk ,Bering sea - Mountains :
Himalayas , Karakorum, Kailash ,Kunlungshan, Tienshan Altai , Satan, Yablonovy , Kolyama, Verkhyoyansk ,Pegu Toma , Arakan Ysoma ,Hindu Kush , Elburuz , Suleiman , Mortar , Makean , Zagros , Pontic , Taurus
Mountains from -
South-West : Sulaiman , Taurus
Pamir knot --
South-East: Himalaya , Karakorum and Kunlun
North-East : Turn Shan
North-West : Hindukush
Armenian Knot --
South-East : Zagros
North-West : Pontic
North-East : Elburz - Rivers :
On , Yenisey ,Amur , Yalu , Hwan ho , smoking , Mekong , Tigris , Euphrates, amu Darya and She Darya - Lakes :
Baikal, Balkash , Van Golu , Turnool , Asad , Dead Sea , Tonle sap toba , Lop Nor , Caspian sea and sea of Gallilee . - Plains :
Manchurian, Great plain of China , West Siberian plain , Mesopotamian - Deserts :
Rub-al-Khali , Al Nafud , Dasht-I-Kavir , Dasht-I-Lut, Gobi Thar - Plateaus :
Ladakh, Tibet , Yunan , Takal Makan , Pamir , Armeninan , Iranian , Mongolia , Alban , Indo-China , Shan ,Deccan , Baluchistan ,Arabian , Anatolia , Loess - Straits :
Strait of Malacca , Bering strait . - Islands :
Kurile , Sakhalin , Honshu, Shiko my Hokkaido , Taiwan , Borneo , Sumatra , Cyprus
13 .......Finer Points .........
... Caspina sea is the world largest lake and five times larger than the Lake of Superior .
... Hwang Ho is called as China s sorrow . It flows through loess land , hence it is also called as Yellow sea
....Amur river froms the boundary Russia and China
.....Yangtze Kiang is the longest river of Asia . Laos is the only landlocked country in South-East Asian Peninsula
....Irrawaddy river is know as the life line of Myanmar
In Gulf of Maryann Pearls are found
...Fujiyama, a volcanic mountain is the highest peak of Japan . Japan is the most industrialised nation of Asia
..... Myanmar is called land of mountains and rivers
..... Pakistan is called country of canals
.... Japan is called Land of Rising Sun
..... Dead sea , the third saltiest water body in the world , is a landlocked sea . It lies between Iserael and Jordan
....Osaka is called the Manchester of Japan
.... Largest island of Asia is Borneo
.... Largest river of Asia is Yangtze of Chian
.... Largest desert of Asia is Gobi
.. Most densely populated country in the world in Singapore
... Biggest producer and exporter of rubber in the world is Thailand
..... Largest gold mine in the world is Grasberg
{...Socio-Cultural Aspects ...}
(I) Asia is the birth place of great religions like Judaism , Christianity and Islam from the Mediterranean lands .confucianism from China , Hinduism , Buddhism and Jainism from India .
(Ii) The ancient river valley civilisation of Asia are the Indus valley , the Mesopotamian and the Chinese .
(Iii) There are also contrasts in the development of languages like Tamil , Japanese , Chinese and Arabic are rich in literature while some have only dialects with no scripts .
(IV) The three most prominent racial groups in Asia are
~ The Arabian Group :
Arabs , Iranians , Jews , Turks .
~The Indian Group :
India , Pakistan and Bangladesh
~ The Mongoloid :
Chinese , Japanese , Koreans and most of south-east Asia .
{.................Main Tribes..................}
Abhors , Afridis , Khirgiz , Kurds , Nicobaris and Mundas etc .
{............Economic Aspects.........}
☺️ Asia s wealth is in its argricultural resources which include fertile soil and water for irrigation .
☺️ China , India , Thailand are the heading producers of rice , wheat and other coarse cereals .
☺️ Gulf countries are Know for its rich oil and gas resources
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