South, Southeast, and East Asia

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South, Southeast, and East Asia
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Physical Characteristics

• Mountains influence the region
• population settlement patterns
• ability of people to move
• climate

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• Mountains
• Himalayas
• Western and Eastern Ghats
• Mount Fuji-Japan

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• Varied climate regions--ranging from tropical wet
  to humid continental
• Many natural hazards--monsoons, typhoons,
  volcanoes, and earthquakes

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• Monsoon--a seasonal shift in the prevailing winds
  that influences large climate regions
• Typhoon--a destructive tropical storm occurring
  in the western Pacific Ocean or the China Sea,
  similar to a hurricane

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• Influence of water--(rivers, seas, and ocean
  currents) on agriculture, trade, and
  transportation

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• Important bodies of water--Arabian Sea, Indian
  Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Ganges River, Indus River,
  Brahmaputra River, Pacific Ocean, Yangtze River
  (Chaing Jiang), Mekong River, Yellow River (Huang
  He)

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• Area have abundant arable land
• areas of loess
• Plateau of Tibet hard to live on
• Gobi Desert--second largest in the world

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Economic Characteristics

• Varied economies in the region ranging from
  subsistence/commercial agriculture to high-tech
  industrial manufacturing
• Active participation in global markets

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• Many newly industrialized countries--South Korea,
  Taiwan, Singapore
• Japan is the economic leader of the area
• China is in a transition period--from a centrally
  planned economy to more of a tradition free
  market economy

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• Agricultural advancements and technology are
  enabling greater food production-- Green
  Revolution
• Environmental degradation
• deforestation
• fishing is important

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• Many countries are members of the Association of
  Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which was set up
  with the US
• main crops are rice and tropical crops such as
  bananas

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Cultural Characteristics

• Areas of extremely dense and sparse population
• severe contrast between rural and urban areas
• serious religious conflicts--primarily between
  Hindus and Muslims

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• deep respect for ancestors
• Religious diversity--Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism,
  Christianity, Taoism, Shinto, Confucianism are
  the major religions

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• India has a strict caste system--(similar to a
  class structure) once born into a caste it is
  next to impossible to move out of that caste

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• Cultural heritage
• Silks
• Batik
• wood and ivory carving
• ideograms--unique alphabets
• jewels

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• Important cities--Tokyo, Japan Beijing, China
  New Delhi,India

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• Cultural landscape--Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, Great
  Wall of China, floating markets,
  mosques,minarets, pagodas, temples and shrines,
  terraced rice fields

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Angkor Wat
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Angkor Wat
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Great Wall of China
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Taj Mahal
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Taj Mahal
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Batik
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Himalayas
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Mount Fuji
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Mount Fujioutside of Tokyo
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Mt. Fuji
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HimalayasMt. Everest
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Gobi Desert
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Buddha
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Buddha in New Delhi
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Shinto Shrine
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Temple
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Pagoda
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Pagoda
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Temple