Geography Asia

Geography Asia – THE NEAR EAST THE NEAR EAST – The area extending from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Aden is often called the “Land of the Five Seas”-a very apt name; the five seas bordering it being the Black Sea, the Mediterran- ean, the Caspian, the Persian …

THE PEOPLES OF ASIA Euro-Asia has been mainly populated by people, in families and tribes, gradually moving outwards from Central Asia. As they moved they came under different climatic and other geographical conditions, and so developed different character- istics of colour, hair, facial features, etc., thus beginning the white, yellow, …

CLIMATE: NATURAL REGIONS It is, of course, impossible to talk about “the climate of Asia” owing to the vast area involved. Before we proceed to divide the land-mass into climate sub-divisions there are certain controlling factors which must be understood because they influence, in varying degrees, the climatic phenomena of …

RELIEF AND STRUCTURE: DRAINAGE General Characteristics The vast land-mass of Asia dwarfs the other continents in size, as a glance at any world map on an equal area projection will confirm. In latitude it extends from nearly 80° N. to nearly 10° S. (if we include the Indonesian Islands). In …