Countries of East Asia
Being home to more than one billion people, the largest country in East Asia
What is China?
Desert in the south of Mongolia and the north of China
What is the Gobi Desert?
China
What is Beijing?
Run east to west
What is lines of lattitude?
Where anime and manga comes from
What is Japan?
The country directly north of China
What is Mongolia?
The tallest mountain in the world
What is Mt. Everest?
Japan
What is Tokyo?
Run north to south
What is lines of Longitude?
A map that shows the names of countries and their borders
What is a political map?
This country is an island and is directly east of China
What is Japan?
They provide a natural barrier between China and India
What is the Himalayan Mountains?
South Korea
What is Seoul?
Helps you determine what the symbols mean on a map
What is a map key/legend?
The largest continent in the world
What is Asia?
The country west of Japan and south of North Korea
What is South Korea?
The body of water between Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
What is the Sea of Japan?
North Korea
What is Pyongyang?
Zero degrees longitude
What is the prime meridian?
An area of high, flat land
What is a plateau?
A small island off the South East coast of China
What is Taiwan?
The longest river in East Asia
What is the Yangtze River?
Vietnam
What is Hanoi?
The location determined by lines of latitude and longitude
What is absolute location?
The Chinese name for the Yellow River
What is the Huang He?