Physical Regions of Africa
This is the world's largest hot desert, covering 8.5 million square kilometers, about the size of the South American country of Brazil.
What is The Sahara?
80 percent of this land is concentrated in central Africa, along the Congo River basin.
What is The Rain Forest?
These mountains are among the highest mountain ranges in the world.
What are The Himalayan Mountains?
This road, which crossed the often dangerous elevations of the high mountain passes, was the main link between China and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This land is sometimes nicknamed the "Mother Continent" due to it being the oldest inhabited continent on Earth.
What is Africa?
A narrow band of semi-arid land that forms a transition zone between the Sahara to the north and the savannas to the south.
What is The Sahel?
These lakes are located in 9 countries that surround the Great Rift Valley.
What are The African Great Lakes?
The desert conditions of this area give rise to a large uninhabitable region in it's center.
What is western China?
This island off the eastern coast of China, has an independent government that has been separated from mainland China since shortly after World War II.
What is Taiwan?
Africa, the second largest continent, is bounded by these bodies of water.
What are the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean?
This began to rise 75 million years ago, as magma from Earths mantle uplifted a broad dome of ancient rock.
What is The Ethiopian Highlands?
This region is dominated by the Kaapvaal craton, a shelf of bedrock that is more than 2.6 billion years old.
What is Southern Africa?
The vast arid regions of western China extend here.
Most of China's population lives in it's eastern region, called.....
What is China Proper?
These regions cover large bands of the continent of Africa.
What is the Sahara and Sahel?
These grasslands cover almost half of Africa, more than 13 million square kilometers.
What are Savannas?
These, also known as sand dunes, cover 20 percent of the Sahara.
What are ergs?
This large region is uninhabited and inhospitable because of hot summers and long cold winters exacerbated by the cold winds sweeping down from the north.
What is the Takla Makan Desert?
This area has rich farmland and is the most densely populated region in China.
What is the North China Plain?
These large mountains are included in East Asia's characteristics.
What is Mount Everest and Mount Fuji?
This stretches about 1,610 kilometers along the Indian Ocean, from Somalia to Mozambique.
What is the Swahili Coast?
Among Africa's many savanna regions, this is the most well known.
What is the Serengeti (or Serengeti Plains)?
Tropical China lies in the extreme south and includes this island.
What is Hainan Island?
This area is northwest of Beijing.
This area witnesses the growth of some of the world's fastest growing emerging economies.
What is East Asia?