SIX FEATURES OF EAST ASIA

GOBI

• - It is approximately 500,000 square miles
• Currently expanding due to desertification
• Lies in a rain shadow caused bythe Himalayas
• - Fifth largest desert in the world

YELLOW SEA

• The water is yellow from minerals.
• depths are only 60-80m
• rich fish life
• It is also home to many endemic waterbirds

TAKLIMAKAN DESSERT

• Taklamakan Desert average annual rainfall is less than 40 mm
• the Taklamakan is also the world's largest shifting-sand desert
• there are a total of 409 vertebrate species
• The lowest elevation point is 154 metres below sea level.

SEA OF JAPAN

• The sea itself lies in a deep basin
• depths of some 650 to 1,000 feet
• The waters of the sea generally circulate in a counterclockwise pattern
• about 2.6 million years ago

HIMALAYA MOUNTAIN

• When translated, the Himalayas means the ‘abode of snow
• The Himalayas formed approximately 70 million years ago
• 75% of Nepal is covered by the Himalayas
• Himalayas the highest mountain range in the world, it is also the youngest

BIGGEST DAM IN WORLD

• The Yangtze River is the world's 3rd longest river at approximately 6,000 km
• Construction on the dam was begun in 1994.
• Officially, 1.2 million people will need to be resettled, but the estimate by ecologists and sociologists is 1.6 to 1.9
• The original estimated price of the dam was 20 billion yuan (US$6 billion)