Physical Geography
The Himalayas, on the borders of India, China, and Nepal, are home to this, the highest mountain on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
The Largest country in Asia, but also the Largest country in Europe as well.
What is Russia?
An inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., this man led India to independence from Britain in 1947 through a strict code of nonviolence.
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
Founded on the idea of enlightenment and inner peace, it is the predominant religion of China and Japan.
What is Buddhism?
Meaning "between the two rivers," this area of land in modern Iraq is considered the cradle of human civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
This river, meaning "Yellow", is the longest River both in China and all of Asia.
What is the Yangtze?
Though now famous for Anime and Video Games, this Asian Nation is the oldest Monarchy on Earth, and controlled a massive Empire as recently as 1945.
After a series of enlightening discoveries, this prince, born Siddhartha Gautama, founded the religion practiced by most of the citizens of China, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Combodia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Who was The Buddha?
This religion focuses on concepts of karma and dharma, and is the oldest practiced religion in the world.
What is Hinduism?
Separating North and South Korea, this strip of land is guarded 24 hours a day by soldiers of both nations, despite its name suggesting the opposite.
What is the Demilitarized Zone?
The largest peninsula on Earth, it is a defining feature of the Middle East and home to much of the world's oil.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
This country is not only the second-largest country in Asia by land area, but the most populous country in the world with over a billion people.
What is China?
Born Temujin, this ruthless and calculating leader founded the Mongol Empire and had so many wives that his descendants now number at least 16 million, 0.5 percent of all men on Earth.
Who was Genghis Khan?
This religion, common in China, follows the principles of balance with human life and nature, and is symbolized by the yin-yang.
What is Daoism (Taoism)?
Home to Dubai, on of the richest cities in the World, this little country actually makes most of its money from trade, not from oil.
What is the United Arab Emirates?
This desert yielded the first fossils of Velociraptor, and is a defining feature of Mongolia and China.
What is the Gobi?
This country was created in 1948 as a place for Jewish People fleeing the Holocaust in Europe, and as of 2022 has the most advanced economy in all of Asia.
What is Israel?
This man was a prefect in Ancient China whose system of loyalty under law founded an entire belief system that now bears his name.
Who was Confucius?
Sacred to Hindus, this river flows across India and is home to the Gharial, a fish-eating crocodilian.
What is the Ganges?
This man-made obstacle runs for over 13,000 miles total, and was made to protect the ancient Empire of China from invaders to the north.
What is the Great Wall?
The largest Bay in the world, even larger than North America's Hudson Bay.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
This country was once the heart of the largest land empire in history, stretching from the pacific ocean all the way to Europe.
What is Mongolia?
The founder of the country that now bears his name, this brutal ruler united five kingdoms in his lifetime and had a penchant for mercury and terra cotta soldiers.
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi?
This religion, centered on the sun goddess Amaterasu, in integral to practices of the Emperor of Japan.
What is Shinto?
This country is the only place in the world where Elephants, Bears, Lions, Tigers, Hyenas, Crocodiles, and Wolves can all be found in the same area.
What is India?