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• The student will locate selected features in the
  Southern and Eastern Asia.
• Locate on a world and regional political-physical
  map Ganges River, Huang He (Yellow River), Indus
  River, Mekong River, Yangtze (Change Jiang)
  River, Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, Sea of Japan,
  South China Sea, Yellow Sea, Gobi Desert,
  Taklimakan Desert, Himalayan Mountains, and
  Korean Peninsula.
• Locate on a world and regional political-physical
  map the countries of China, India, Indonesia,
  Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.

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Ganges River - India
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Ganges River

• The Ganges is 1557 miles long (2506 km)
• The Ganges Valley, or basin, is 200 to 400 miles
  (322 to 644 km) wide
• The river starts in the Himalayas.
• It flows eastward and empties into the Bay of
  Bengal. Its mouth forms a vast delta. At the
  delta it is joined by the southward-flowing
  Brahmaputra River. Their combined delta is the
  largest in the world

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Ganges River

• Tremendous volume of waste 1 billion liters per
  day of mostly untreated raw sewage
• Also, inadequate cremation procedures contributes
  to a large number of partially burnt or not burnt
  corpses floating down the Ganges, not to mention
  livestock corpses

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Huang He- Yellow River - China
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Huang He-Yellow River

• The Yellow River, sometimes simply called "the
  River" in ancient Chinese, is the 2nd longest
  river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the
  7th longest in the world, at 5,463km.
• It flows through 9 provinces of China and empties
  into the Bohai Sea (near Yellow Sea).

• It is called the Yellow River because huge
  amounts of loess silt and sand sediment turn
  the water that color. So much of this
  mineral-rich soil ends up in the Yellow River
  that it can fill the riverbed and thus change the
  rivers course.

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Huang He-Yellow River

• The Yellow River is indicative of the problems
  affecting many of China's rivers. Pollution,
  hydropower, and intensive water extraction for
  human consumption, agriculture, and industrial
  use are all taking their toll on the river.
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  il-spill/1376364778/
• The Chinese government estimates that around
  two-thirds of the Yellow River's water is too
  polluted to drink and according to the Institute
  of Public and Environmental Affairs, a
  Beijing-based NGO, 4.3 billion tons of waste
  flowed into the Yellow River in 2005.

• The Yellow River is known as the "Mother River of
  China" and "the Cradle of Chinese Civilization"
  in China, as its basin is the birthplace of the
  northern Chinese civilizations and the most
  prosperous region in early Chinese history. But
  frequent devastating floods, largely due to the
  elevated river bed in its lower course, have also
  earned it the distinction "China's Sorrow".

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Indus River China, India, Pakistan

• Indus River, one of the chief rivers of southern
  Asia. From its source in Tibet, China, the Indus
  flows some 1,900 miles (3,100 km) through India
  and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea, an arm of the
  Indian Ocean. All of India's section of the river
  is in Kashmir. The river's drainage basin
  occupies 332,000 square miles (860,000 km2) most
  of it is in Pakistan.
• The Indus river system provides water for one of
  the largest irrigated areas in the world. Without
  this water most of the basin would be virtually
  uninhabitable.
• Conflict between Pakistan and India over
  distribution of the water arose shortly after the
  creation of Pakistan in 1947. The dispute was
  settled in 1960 by a treaty between India and
  Pakistan

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Mekong River

• The Mekong River is the longest river in the
  region.
• From its source in China, the Mekong flows
  generally southeast to the South China Sea, a
  distance of 4,200 km (2,610 mi).
• The Mekong crosses China, and forms the border
  between Myanmar (Burma) and Laos and most of the
  border between Laos and Thailand. It then flows
  across Cambodia and southern Vietnam into a rich
  delta before emptying into the South China Sea.
  In the upper course are steep descents and swift
  rapids, but the river is navigable south of
  Louang Phrabang in Laos.

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Mekong River

• The Mekong system is extremely complex and
  effects the lives of some 60 million people, many
  of whom are amongst the poorest in the world. 
• There are many demands made on the river - to
  provide water for industrial and agricultural
  development, to sustain subsistence fishing, for
  transport, to maintain delicate ecological and
  hydrological balances. 
• Inevitably there are conflicting demands made on
  the resource and very different views as to how
  the water should (or should not) be used. 

Rice paddies along the MeKong River in China
Mekong River Valley, Laos, 1968
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Yangtze (Change Jiang) River

• The Yangtze River is the longest river in China
  and Asia, and the third-longest in the world.
  Only the Amazon and Nile are longer
• Waters of the Yangtze are often used for rice and
  wheat irrigation. It also has enormous and
  inexhaustible hydroelectric resources.

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Three Gorges Dam-Advantages

• The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric river dam
  that spans the Yangtze River. It is the world's
  largest electricity-generating plant of any kind.
• Supporters say the benefits of the project far
  outweigh the costs. The principal advantage of
  the project is to generate power to keep pace
  with China's economic growth.
• Chinese officials note that the dam will relieve
  the danger of flooding.
• Another advantage of the dam is to reduce
  emissions of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide
  generating electricity equal to about 40 million
  tons of coal.

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Disadvantages of Dam

• More than 1.1 million people had to be resettled.
• The project increased the risk of earthquakes and
  landslides.
• It threatens the river wildlife. In addition to
  massive fish species, it also affects endangered
  species, including the Yangtze dolphin, the
  Chinese Sturgeon, the Chinese Tiger, the Chinese
  Alligator, the Siberian Crane, and the Giant
  Panda.
• Silt trapped behind the dam has caused problems
  with electrical generation and has deprived
  farmers of the fertile silt downstream.
• Construction of the dam required extensive
  logging in the area.
• Finally, the dam and the reservoir destroyed some
  of Chinas finest scenery which is an important
  source of tourism revenue.

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Bay of Bengal

• The Bay of Bengal is bordered by India,
  Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri
  Lanka.
• Strategically important to India because of the
  outlying islands.

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South China Sea
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South China Sea

• States and territories with borders on the sea
  (clockwise from north) include
• China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia,
  Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam.
• The South China Sea was the starting point of the
  "Silk Road on the Ocean" during the last
  millennium.

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Yellow Sea

• Pollution Threatens Olympic Sailing In Yellow Sea

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Yellow Sea

• Found between mainland China and the Korean
  Pennisula.
• Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi
  Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the
  water golden yellow during sunset
• The intertidal mudflats of the Yellow Sea are of
  great importance for migratory shorebirds.
  Surveys show that the area is the single most
  important site for migratory birds on northward
  migration in the entire East Asian - Australasian
  Flyway.
• A minimum number of two million birds passing
  through at the time, with about half that number
  using it on southward migration

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Gobi Desert

• The Gobi desert, one of the world's great
  deserts, covers much of the southern part of
  Mongolia. Unlike the Sahara there are few sand
  dunes in the Gobi rather you'll find large
  barren expenses of gravel plains and rocky
  outcrops.
• The climate here is extreme. Temperatures reach
  40 C. in summer, and -40 in winter.
• Great Gobi National Park is one of the largest
  World Biospheres, with an area larger than
  Switzerland. It contains the last remaining wild
  Bacterian (two-humped) camels, and a small
  population of Gobi bears, the only
  desert-inhabiting bear.

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Gobi Desert

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• Khongoryn Els (Singing Dunes) Omngobi Aimag
• This is one of the few areas of sand dune
  formations. Up to 200m tall and many km long, the
  Khongoryn Els are a popular tourist destination.
• The Gobi is most notable in history as part of
  the great Mongol Empire, and as the location of
  several important cities along the Silk Road.

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Taklimakan Desert

• The Taklamakan Desert, also called The Desert of
  Death, is located in China.
• One of the largest sandy deserts in the world,
  ranking 15th in size in a ranking of the world's
  largest non-polar deserts.
• Scientists consider it to be the most dangerous
  desert in the world.
• Taklamakan is a cold desert climate. Because it
  is close to the Siberian winds, extreme lows are
  recorded in wintertime, sometimes well below -20
  C (-4 F).
• It if famous for being a part of the Silk Road.

2008 Winter Snow in Taklamakan.
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Taklimakan Desert

• There is very little water in the desert and it
  is hazardous to cross. Merchant caravans on the
  Silk Road would stop for relief at the thriving
  oasis towns.

Kashgar is one of the oasis towns located in the
Taklimakan Desert that was important along the
Silk Road.
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Himalaya Mountains

• Himalayas for short, is a mountain range in Asia,
  separating the Indian subcontinent from the
  Tibetan Plateau.
• Together, the Himalayan mountain system is the
  planet's highest and home to the world's highest
  peaks, which includes Mount Everest and K2.
• The Himalayas and their combined drainage basin
  is home to some 3 billion people, almost half of
  earth population.

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Himalayas

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• According to the modern theory of plate
  tectonics, their formation is a result of a
  continental collision along the convergent
  boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and
  the Eurasian Plate. This is referred to as a fold
  mountain.

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Korean Peninsula

• The peninsula is surrounded by the Sea of Japan,
  the East China Sea, and the Yellow Sea, the Korea
  Strait connecting the first two bodies of water.
• Until the end of World War II, Korea was a single
  political entity whose territory roughly
  coincided with the Korean Peninsula. Since the
  end of the Korean War in 1953, the northern half
  has been occupied by North Korea, while the
  southern half has been occupied by South Korea.

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Korean Peninsula
South Korea is a semi- presidential government in
which a president and a prime minister are both
active participants in the day-to-day
administration of the state. It differs from a
parliamentary republic in that it has a popularly
elected head of state who is more than a purely
ceremonial figurehead, and from the presidential
system in that the cabinet, although named by the
president, is responsible to the legislature,
which may force the cabinet to resign through a
motion of no confidence.

• North Korea is a single-party state under a
  united front led by the Korean Workers' Party.
• The country's government follows the Juche
  ideology of self-reliance.
• Command Economy

Kim Jong-il
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China
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India
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Indonesia
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Japan
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North Korea
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South Korea
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Vietnam