Geography and People of East Asia
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Geography and People of East Asia
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China’s Population
• Most populated country• home to over 1.3 billion
people– 1/5 of world’s population
• Where do most people live? Why?
• Third largest nation• Mountains cover about
80% of land, few flat areas• only about 10% good for
farming
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China’s People
• 95% are HAN- ethnic Chinese
• homogenous society• language- Mandarin is
official dialect• Multiple minority
ethnic groups
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Pagoda in Beijing
A Land of Contrasts: Traditional…
Buddhist monk in Beijing
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Chengdu: Capital of Sichuan Province
…and Modern
Beijing at night
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China Reaches Outer Space, 2003
The use of names similar to those of famous foreign brands is common throughout China.
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Terrace Farming• Due to lack of farm
land• To develop more
farmland• cut fields into sides of
hills
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Tibetan Plateau- Relative location?
Movement and collision of tectonic plates created the mountains and plateaus
Llasa
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Gobi Desert
Potential for oil reserves far greater than the US
Petroleum trucks in the Taklimakan Desert
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Huang He
• Yellow River• loess- yellow-brown
soil carried into river by the wind
• “River of sorrow”• second longest river in
China
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In some places in China’s Shanxi Province (northeast), the loess is so thick and firm that people can build energy-efficient, cave-like houses in it.
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Chang Jiang• Yangtze River
– longest river in China– major river for trade– Shanghai port
• Three Gorges Dam– Hydroelectric power – very controversial
• flooding• force people to move
– @ 3 million ppl
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Japan• Archipelago: define?
• Located along the Pacific Ring of Fire
• Very volcanic, not part of the continental shift
• numerous earthquakes
• Mount Fuji – volcano– Japan’s most cultural
symbol
• over 3000 islands