EAST ASIA

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU

• Extensive northeastern highland region of the great plateau of Central Asia
• It covers an area of approximately 1,000,000 square miles in east-central Asia.
• Politically, the plateau is divided between Mongolia, China and Russia.
• In Russia, the plateau forms part of Buryatia and the southern Irkutsk Oblast.

GOBI DESERT

• The Gobi measures over 1,000 mi. from southwest to northeast and 500 mi. from north to south.
• The Gobi is a cold desert, with frost and occasionally snow occurring on its dunes.
• The Gobi Desert is the source of many important fossil finds, including the first dinosaur eggs.
• It is the fifth-largest desert in the world and Asia's largest.

HIMALAYAS

• It is a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
• The Himalayan range is home to the planet's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest
• The Himalaya are among the youngest mountain ranges on the planet and consist mostly of uplifted sedimentary and metamorphic rock.
• About 50 million years ago, this fast moving Indo-Australian plate had completely closed the Tethys Ocean

EAST CHINA SEA

• The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China.
• It is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of roughly 1,249,000 square km
• The Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) is the largest river flowing into the East China Sea.
• There is a cluster of submerged reefs in the northern East China Sea.

GRAND CANAL

• It's also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal
• Its the longest canal or artificial river in the world
• Length: 1,104 miles (1,776 km)
• Its greatest height is reached in the mountains of Shandong, at a summit of 138 ft

YELLOW SEA

• Its located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula.
• Area: 146,719 sq miles (380,000 km²)
• Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden yellow.
• The area has cold, dry winters with strong northerly monsoons blowing from late November to March.