Geography Asia

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 …