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Archipelago: An extensive group of islands H

B Himalayas: A mountain range in South Asia separating
the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan
Balkan Peninsula: A peninsula of south-east Europe
Plateau
bounded by the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, and
Hindu Kush: A mountain range in South Asia, mostly
the Aegean, Mediterranean, Ionian and Adriatic Seas
in north-eastern Afghanistan, extending westwards
Belukha Mountain: One of the Katun Mountains,
from the Himalayas
a series of snow-capped peaks in Russia and the
highest mountain in the Russian portion of the Altai I
Mountains reaching a height of 4,506 metres
Indus Valley: The fertile valley of the river Indus
Bering Strait: A strait of the Pacifi c, which separates stretching over India and Pakistan also irrigated by
Russia and Alaska slightly south of the Arctic Circle the fi ve tributaries of the Indus, Chenab, Beas, Ravi,
Bosphorus Strait: A strait connecting the Jhelum and Sutlej
Mediterranean and the Black Sea and which separates Intercontinental desert: A desert that extends
the European and Asian parts of Turkey between or among continents

C Intermontane plateaus: A plateau which is enclosed
or surrounded by mountain ranges
Caspian Sea: The world’s largest inland body of water,
Iranian Plateau: A geological feature in western Asia
variously classed as the world’s largest lake or a full-
and Central Asia
fl edged sea, and an endorheic basin located between
Europe and Asia Irrawaddy River: The main river of Myanmar rising in
the north and fl owing south through the length of
Caucasus Mountains: A mountain system at the
Burma to empty into the Andaman Sea
intersection of Europe and Asia, stretching between
the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea Irrawaddy-Salween-Mekong Valley: The fertile plains
and basins formed on the banks of the three rivers
Converge: Tend to meet at a point
that extend across the countries of south-east Asia
Crystalline: Having the structure and form of a crystal
Irtysh River: An Asian river that rises in the Altai
D Mountains in northern China and fl ows generally
north-west to become a tributary of the Ob River
Dardanelles Strait: The strait between the Aegean
and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Ismoil Somoni Peak: A mountain in south-eastern
Tajikistan in the Pamirs which was the highest
Turkey from Asian Turkey
mountain in the former Soviet Union
Deccan Plateau: A large plateau in western and
Isthmus of Suez: The 125 kilometre wide strip of land
southern India which rises to 100 metres in the north,
that lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red
and to more than 1,000 metres in the south, forming
Sea, and is the boundary between the continents of
a raised triangle within the Indian subcontinent’
Africa and Asia
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J
Ganga–Brahmaputra Valley: The large eastern Indo-
Japanese Archipelago: An archipelago, which forms
Gangetic Plains embodying sediments deposited by
the country of Japan, extends roughly from north-
rivers in the Ganga Basin and the Brahmaputra Basin
east to south-west along the north-eastern coast
Gilgit-Baltistan: The northernmost autonomous
of the Eurasia mainland, washing upon the north-
territory of Pakistan which was part of the former
western shores of the Pacifi c Ocean
Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu in 1800s
Gobi Desert: A large desert or brushland region in K
Asia that covers parts of northern and north-eastern K2: The second highest mountain in the world, at
China and of southern Mongolia 8,611 metres and is part of the Karakoram range

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