SOUTHEAST ASIA GEOGRAPHY

THE GOBI DESERT

• Located in northern China and southeast Mongolia
• It's a prime area for finding dinosaur fossils
• It covers approximately 500,000 square miles
• A cold desert with frost and occasionally some snow on dunes

CHANG JIANG OR YANGTZE RIVER

• It is the longest river in all of Asia
• The name Chang Jiang means "long river"
• The river has been a major trade route since ancient times
• It flows for 3,900 miles from Tibet into the East China Sea

THE HIMALAYAS

• Separates the plains of the Indian subcontinent and the Tibetan plateau
• Home to the worlds highest mountain peaks including Mount Everest
• Have over one hundred mountains exceeding 23,600 ft
• The Himalaya mountains cross or are in six different countries

NORTH CHINA PLAIN

• Is the largest alluvial plain of Eastern Asia
• It merges with the Yangtze plain to the south
• It covers approximately 158,100 square miles
• Beijing, the national capital, is located on it

HUANG HE OR YELLOW RIVER

• It starts in the Kunlun Mountains in western china
• It winds eastward for 3,000 miles, empties into Yellow Sea
• The sea and the river get their names from the yellow silt
• It has caused many terrible floods for Chinese citizens

EAST CHINA SEA

• A marginal sea east of china part of the Pacific Ocean
• It covers approximately 482,000 square miles
• The Chang Jiang river empties into the sea
• It is surrounded by many Japanese islands to the east