East Asia

Where is East ASIA??

Countries of East Asia:

China

Japan North Korea

South Korea Mongolia Taiwan

Major Physical Features:• Kunlun Mountains

• Gobi Desert

• Tibetan Plateau

• “Ring of Fire”

KUNLUN MOUNTAINS

GOBI DESERT

TIBETAN PLATEAU “Roof of the World”

Average Elevation - 16,400 ft

World’s highest and biggestplateau

RING OF FIRE

RIVERS

YANGTZE RIVER(CHANG JIANG)

• ASIA’S LONGEST RIVER• CHANG JIANG MEANS “LONG RIVER”• MAJOR TRADE ROUTE

Three Gorges Dam

• world’s largest hydro-electric power station• completed October 2008• construction cost – 39 billion dollars

YELLOW RIVER(HUANG HE)

• KNOWN AS “CHINA’S SORROW”• FLOODS FREQUENTLY

Named for the silt carrieddownstream in its flow.

This silt is known as …

Loess

Where does the Yellow River get its name?

Huang He “Yellow River”

ISLAND COUNTRIES

JAPAN TAIWAN

CLIMATE REGIONS

• SUBARCTIC• HIGHLAND• HUMID CONTINENTAL• HUMID SUBTROPICAL • SEMIARID• DESERT• TROPICAL WET

NATURAL HAZARDS TYPHOONS – A TROPICAL STORM LIKE A HURRICANE THAT OCCURS IN THE WESTERNPACIFIC

VOLCANOES

MOUNT FUJI – JAPAN

EARTHQUAKES

DUE TO BEING PART OF THE RING OF FIRE

IMAGES OF KOBE EARTHQUAKE, JANUARY 1995

                                    

Tsunami – a huge wave of great destructive power

History:• Dynasties in China and Japan • Communism in China – Mao Zedong

Dynasty – series of rulers from the same family

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS

Religious Diversity:HinduismIslamBuddhismChristianityTaoismShintoConfucianism

Cultural Landscape

Great Wall of China

Pagodas

Temples