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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 …

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 …