FIVE GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF EAST ASIA

GOBI

• Notable in history as part of the Mongol Empire, and as the location of important cities along the Silk Road.
• Measures over 1,600 km from southwest to northeast and 800 km from north to south.
• A cold desert with frost and occasionally snow occurring on its dunes.
• The Gobi had a long history of human habitation, mostly by nomadic peoples.
• The Gobi Desert is expanding, mainly because of human activities such as deforestation.

SEA OF JAPAN

• Has almost no tides due to nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific Ocean.
• Fishing is the dominant economic activity in the region.
• Was once a landlocked sea when the land bridge of East Asia existed.
• The sea currents circulate in the counterclockwise direction.
• Disagreement about when the name "Sea of Japan" became the international standard.

HIMALAYA MTS.

• Home to the planet's highest peaks, including Mount Everest.
• They cross five countries: Bhutan, India, Nepal, China, and Pakistan
• The Himalayan range encompasses about 15,000 glaciers,
• In Hinduism, they have been personified as Himavat, the God of snow
• Runs west-northwest to east-southeast, in an arc 2,400 kilometres long.

MEKONG RIVER

• Length: 4,200 km (2,610 miles)
• About 60 million people live in the Mekong River basin.
• 1540: Antonio de Faria, was the first person from Europe to see the Mekong River.
• Vietnamese people rely on it for almost half the water used to irrigate their crops.
• Flows through China, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar.

TAWAIN

• Official Republic of China
• Population: 23.34 million (2013)
• Formerly known as "Formosa"
• The United States is one of the main allies of the ROC
• 5 branches:the Executive, the Legislative, the Judicial, the Control, the Examination.