Questions about Asia

1. East Asia: It includes 5 countries mainly China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan.

West Asia: including countries such as Iran, Iraq, Georgia in Asia, Armenia, Azerbaijan in Asia, Turkey in Asia, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egypt in Asia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Cyprus

South Asia:South Asia*** has seven countries, of which Nepal and Bhutan are landlocked, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are sea-locked, and Sri Lanka and Maldives are island nations. Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Kashmir are adjacent to China

Southeast Asia: the region **** there are 11 countries: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, Timor-Leste (May 20, 2002, East Timor, the Democratic *** and the State of Timor-Leste was formally established), an area of about 4.57 million square kilometers , with a population of about 560 million.

Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan,

North Asia: North Asia refers to the Asian part of Russia, mainly east of the Ural Mountains, a large area of Siberia, north of the Altai Mountains, north of Kazakhstan, north of Mongolia, north of China north of Japan, and west of the Bering Strait, accounting for one-third of Asia's one-third of the area of Asia. No special countries...

2, the general characteristics of the topography of Asia is the high terrain, the surface of the undulation, high in the middle, around the low, uplift and depression, the eastern part of a longitudinal series of flower-colored island arc. With an average elevation of about 950 meters above sea level, it is the highest continent in the world except Antarctica. Mountains, plateaus and hills

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Leings account for about 3/4 of the total area, with 1/3 of the area above 1,000 meters in elevation. Plains account for 1/4 of the total area, more than 10 million square kilometers. The whole continent to the Pamir Plateau as the center, a series of tall mountain ranges to the four sides of the radiation extends to the edge of the continent. There are the Tianshan Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains, the Himalayas, the Altai Mountains, the Hindu Kush Mountains, the Elbrus Mountains, the Toros Mountains and the Zagros Mountains. Between the above main mountain ranges are the Tibetan Plateau, the Mongolian Plateau, the Iranian Plateau, the Anatolian Plateau, and the Tarim Basin, the Junggar Basin, and the Qaidam Basin. In the mountains, plateau on the outside of the distribution of a vast area of plains, mainly in the Northeast Plain, North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, the Indus Plain, the Ganges Plain, Mesopotamia Plain, the West Siberia Plain and so on. Asia has both the world's highest plateau (Tibetan Plateau), mountain ranges and peaks (Mount Everest), and the world's famous plains (West Siberian Plain) and depressions (Dead Sea of Zaojiao). Asia is not only extreme in land undulation, but also the eastern edge of the continent's curved islands and the Pacific Ocean's seabed part of the same show extreme undulation, the mountain ranges on the islands accompanied by very deep sea trench. The highest peaks in Asia and the deepest trenches in the neighboring seas have a difference in height of about 20 kilometers. Rivers and lakes: Asia has many large rivers, most of which originate in the central high mountainous region and flow in all directions in a radial pattern. Rivers flowing into the Pacific Ocean are the Heilongjiang River, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Pearl River, the Mekong River, etc.; into the Indian Ocean are the Indus River, the Ganges River, the Salween River, the Ayeyarwaddy River, the Tigris River, the Euphrates and so on; into the Arctic Ocean there are the Ebis River, the Yenisei River, the Lerna River and so on. Endorheic rivers are mainly distributed in the arid regions of west-central Asia, there are Syr Darya, Amu Darya, Ili Darya, Tarim Darya, Jordan Darya and so on. The largest waterfall drop in Asia is the Jog Falls on the Shravati River on the southwest coast of India, with a drop of 253 meters.

Asian lakes compared to other continents is not too much, but many of the lakes have characteristics, known around the world. Such as the Asia-Europe boundary lake Caspian Sea is the world's first large lake, the largest saltwater lake; Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake, Asia's largest freshwater lake; the Dead Sea is the world's lowest depression; Lake Balkhash is an inland lake with both freshwater and saltwater.

4, monsoon climate disasters are naturally typhoons

5, large populations, the climate environment is suitable for most countries in Asia, in addition to Japan, Singapore, South Korea, China and other countries, the economy of most countries in Asia to agriculture and mining. Countries and regions of the level of industrial development and sectoral and geographical structure of the significant differences in the vast majority of countries with a weak industrial base, mining, agro-industry and textile industry occupies a major position

6, due to the vast area of Asia, many ethnic groups, cultural diversity is very strong, there is a great difference, there is almost no unified "Asian Culture ".

All world religions were born in Asia, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and so on. Before the start of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th

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century, most of the technological achievements of mankind arose in Asia, as the world's economic center of gravity was in Asia. As early as 3000 B.C., Asians had already invented fired pottery and smelted ores; the Sumerians in Asia were the first to invent writing and systematic irrigation works; the nomads of Central Asia invented saddles, harnesses, and wheels; and the Chinese invented porcelain, stirrups, gunpowder, the compass, papermaking, and printing and were the first to cultivate rice. The Indians and Arabs invented decimal calculation. Various local Asian medicinal techniques are very effective even today and are still in use in many areas.

Many of the current musical instruments of the West and East have the same origin and are therefore very similar, such as the violin and the erhu, the guitar and the lute, the oboe and the suona, and the almost identical East-West flute. In fact most of these instruments originated in the Middle East.

The cultures of various Asian peoples such as Chinese, Arabian, and Indian have had a huge impact on world culture.

7. For example, Korea and Japan are economic powerhouses, while some countries in Central Asia are relatively backward.

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