GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF EAST ASIA

THE GOBI DESERT

• It is one of the largest deserts in the world
• It stretches from northwest China into Mongolia and covers over 500,000 sq. miles
• The desert is larger than Texas and California combined
• People came here while traveling on the Silk Road
• There are fragments from nomads in its soil from about 100,000 years.

HUANG HE (YELLOW RIVER)

• Located in northern China
• It starts in the Kunlan Mountains and empties into the Yellow Sea
• Both the Sea and the River get their names from the yellow silt
• Its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization
• The 1931 flood killed about 1,000,000-4,000,000 people

CHANG JIANG (YANGTZE RIVER)

• It is the longest river in Asia
• It flows 3,900 miles from Tibet to East China Sea
• The river has caused a major flood at least every 50 years
• Human activity has been verified in the Three Gorges
• Thin was about 27,000 years ago

KUNLUN MOUNTAINS

• They are located west of China
• It's the source of China's two great rivers-the Huang He and Chang Jiang
• The mountains extend over 3,000 km
• Zhong Qiu Jie takes place within these mountains
• There is a road so people can travel throughout these mountains

PLATEAU OF TIBEt

• It's also known as the Xizang Plateau
• It covers about 620 miles from north to south and 1,600 from east to west
• It is the highest and largest plateau in the world
• Nomads in this area are the remainders of the nomadic practice
• These people raised livestock instead of crops