SS2 - About Asia

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ABOUT ASIAABOUT ASIA


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BASIC FACTSBASIC FACTS

Population: 3,335,672,000

Density: 193.5 persquare mile

Literacy: 65.5%

Birth Rate: 27 people a yearper 1,000 people

Death Rate: 9.25 people a yearper 1,000 people

Growth Rate: 1.8%

Main Languages: Chinese, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese,

Punjabi, Javanese, Korean

Principal Religions: Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism,

Christianity, Shintoism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism

Largest Cities: Seoul, Bombay, Jakarta, Tokyo, Shanghai

Consisting Countries


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Asia is the world's largest and most populouscontinent

it hosts 60% ofthe world's current human

population.

The wealth ofAsia differs very widely among

andwithin its regions, due to its vast size and

huge range ofdifferent ethnic groups, cultures,

environments, historical ties andgovernmentsystems.


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Asia is traditionally defined aspart ofthelandmassofEurasiawith the westernportion

ofthe latteroccupied by Europelocated to the

east ofthe Suez Canal, east of the Ural

Mountains andsouth ofthe CaucasusMountains (or the Kuma-Manych Depression)

and the Caspian and Black Seas. It is bounded

on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south

by the Indian Ocean andon the north by theArctic Ocean.


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Asia is the largest and most culturally diverse of

the continents in the seven-continent system,anddoesnot exactly match with conventional

Asian cultural boundaries.

The term "A

sia" isoriginally a conceptexclusively ofWestern civilization

The wordAsia originatedfrom the Greek word

, first attributed to Herodotus (about 440

BC) in reference toAnatolia orindescribingthe Persian Warsto the Persian Empire, in

contrast to Greece and Egypt.


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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

The countries in this table are categorizedaccording to the scheme forgeographic sub

regions used by the United Nations, anddata

included are persources in cross-referenced

articles. Where they differ, provisos are clearlyindicated.


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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Basedon the scheme forgeographic subregionsused by the United Nations, the continent ofAsia

issub-divided into the following:

Central Asia;

EasternAsia;

NorthernAsia;

South EasternAsia;

SouthernAsia; and,

WesternAsia


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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Name

of region and

territory,

with flag

Area(km)

Capital Form ofGovernment

Population Currency

ASSIGNMENT - Due date: Monday

Lettersize, Landscape, Font 12 Times New Roman

Identify the countries inAsia persub-regions basedon the following inputs:


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Name of region

and

territory,

with flag

Area

(km)

Capital Form of

GovernmentPopulation Currency

Central Asia:

Kazakhstan 2,724,9272,724,927 Astana

Kyrgyzstan 198,500198,500 Bishkek

Tajikistan 143,100143,100 Dushanbe

Turkmenistan 488,100488,100A

shgabat

Uzbekistan 447,400447,400 Tashkent


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Eastern Asia:

Hong Kong 1,092

Japan 377,835 Tokyo

Macau 25

Mongolia 1,565,000 Ulaan Baatar

North Korea 120,540 Pyongyang

People's

Republic ofChina9,640,821 Beijing

Republic of

China (Taiwan)36,191 Taipei

South Korea 98,480 Seoul

Name of region

and

territory,

with flag

Area

(km)

Capital Form of



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Name of regionand

territory,

with flag

Area

(km)

Capital Form of


Northern Asia:

Russia 17,075,400 Moscow


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Name of region

and

territory,

with flag

Area

(km)

Capital Form of


South Eastern Asia:

Brunei 5,770 Bandar Seri Begawan

Burma

(Myanmar)676,578 Naypyidaw

Cambodia 181,035 Phnom Penh

East Timor

(Timor-Leste)15,007 Dili

Indonesia 1,919,440 Jakarta

Laos 236,800 Vientiane

Malaysia 329,847 Kuala LumpurPhilippines 300,000 Manila

Singapore 704 Singapore

Thailand 514,000 Bangkok

Vietnam 331,690 Hanoi


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Name of region

and

territory,

with flag

Area

(km)

Capital Form of


Southern Asia:

Afghanistan 647,500 Kabul

Bangladesh 147,570 Dhaka

Bhutan 38,394 Thimphu

India 3,287,263 New Delhi

Maldives 300 Mal

Nepal 147,181 Kathmandu

Pakistan 803,940 Islamabad

Sri Lanka 65,610

Sri

Jayawardenapur

a-Kotte


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Name of region

and

territory,

with flag

Area

(km)

Capital Form of


Western Asia:

Armenia 29,800 Yerevan

Azerbaijan 86,660 Baku

Bahrain 665 Manama

Cyprus 9,250 Nicosia

Georgia 69,700 Tbilisi

Iraq 437,072 Baghdad

Iran 1,648,195 Tehran

Israel 20,770 Jerusalem

Jordan 92,300 Amman


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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHYName of region

andterritory,

with flag

Area(km)

Capital Form ofGovernment

Population Currency

Western Asia:

Kuwait 17,820 Kuwait City

Leban

on 10,452 Beirut

Oman 212,460 Muscat

Palestinian

territories6,257 Ramallah

Qatar 11,437 Doha

Saudi Arabia 1,960,582 Riyadh

Syria 185,180 Damascus

Turkey Ankara

United Arab

Emirates82,880 Abu Dhabi

Yemen 527,970 Sana


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Special Notes:

Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey are often

considered to be transcontinental

countries, spanning both Asia and Europe.

Many organizations, such as the BBC

place them in Europe, while otherssuch as

the CIA include them inAsia. All are

included in Europeanorganizationssuch

as the Council ofEurope and are

considered to be European, and thus

eligible to join, by the European Union.


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Special Notes:

Indonesia isoften considered a transcontinental

country with territory in both Asia and Oceania

Russia is considered a transcontinental country with

territory in Eastern Europe and NorthernAsia;

population and area figures are for the entire state.

The islandofCyprus is locatedon the Anatolian

plate, but is a memberofEuropeanorganizations

such as the Council ofEurope and the EuropeanUnion. Armenia issimilarly locatedfully withinAsia,

but is a memberof the Council ofEurope.


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Special Notes:

Geography is the study ofthe physical featuresofthe earth. In its broadsense, it is a study of

the people, their environment and the

resources available to them.

Five themessum up the impact ofgeographyon history:

Location;

Place;

Human-environment interaction; Movement; and,

Region.


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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

Assignment:

Explain how these five themes affect history?


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GEOGRAPHY

Five themessum up the impact ofgeography on

history:

Location. Tellswhere the place ison the

surface of the Earth by using: Exact location refers to the use of longitude

(measures the distance east orwest ofthe

prime meridian) and latitude (measures the

distance north orsouth of the equator); Relative locationwhere one place is located

in relation to another, issome times more

important than exact location


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Place in termsof: Physical featuresofa place include

landforms, bodiesofwater, climate,

soil, quality resources, plants and

animal life

Human characteristics include where

most people live, their economicactivities, religious beliefs and

languages.


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Human-environment interaction Since the dawnoftime people

have interactedwith their

environment they have shapedand beenshaped by the places

inwhich they lived. It makes us

wonder how these changes

made an impact on the way we

see and treated the environment


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GEOGRAPHY

Movement The movement ofpeople, goods

and ideas as a result ofmans

quest forstandardof living

Region

Geographersdivide the world into

many typesofregion basedon

physical, cultural, economic andpolitical features


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