Geography of Asia

Third Term

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Regions in Asia

• East

• South

• Southwest

• North/Central

• Southeast

Southeast

• Popularly referred to as:

– Malay race region

– Brown race region (because of their skin color)

– ASEAN region (Association of Southeast Asian countries)

• Composed of Archipelago (Indonesia, Philippines) and Mainland SEA (Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam)

Southeast Asian countries

• Indonesia

• Thailand

• Philippines

• Malaysia

• Vietnam

• Singapore

• Myanmar / Burma

• Cambodia

• Laos

• Brunei

• East Timor

South

• Popularly referred to as:

– Hindu region (with India as point of reference because of its land area)

– Land of Mysticism

• Composed of the subcontinent of India and the island of Sri Lanka and atolls of Maldives

South Asian countries

• India

• Pakistan

• Bangladesh

• Sri Lanka

• Nepal

• Bhutan

• Maldives

Southwest

• Popularly referred to as:

– Oil –rich region

– Arab region (because of predominantly Arab ethinicity)

• Cradle of civilization (Mesopotamia as the first cradle of history)

• Three of the world’s oldest existing religion (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) originated from this region.

Southwest Asian countries

• Turkey• Saudi Arabia• Iran• United Arab Emirates• Israel• Iraq• Qatar• Oman• Syria

• Jordan• Yemen• Lebanon• Palestine• Kuwait• Bahrain• Afghanistan

East

East Asian countries

• China

• Japan

• Hong Kong and Macau (SAR)

• South Korea

• North Korea

• Mongolia

• Taiwan (province of China)

• Popularly referred to as:

– Mongoloid race region

– Yellow region (because of their skin color)

– Europeans called them as “Far East”

• Composed of the historical countries of China, Korea, Japan and Mongolia

• China has 2 Special Administrative Regions (Macau and Hong Kong) and Chinese Taipei as a province of China

North/Central

• Popularly referred to as:

– Caucasoid region (because of their skin color)

– Europeans called them as “Near East”

• Countries that gained independence from USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic)

• Countries that mostly ends in “tan”

North/Central East Countries

• Kazakhstan

• Uzbekistan

• Kyrgyzstan

• Tajikistan

• Turkmenistan

• Armenia

• Georgia

• Azerbaijan