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grouped together without any particular Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and
historical consensus for the divisions. Th ese Tajikistan.
regional divisions are listed below. South-East Asia: Th is region includes
East Asia: Geographically and geopolitically, the countries of Brunei, Cambodia, East
East Asia is the eastern sub-region of Asia. Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Philippines, Singapore, Th ailand and Vietnam.
It includes China (including Hong Kong
South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
and Macau), Mongolia, North Korea, South
Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan
Korea, Japan and Taiwan. It covers around
and Sri Lanka form South Asia. Th is region
28 per cent of the continent.
covers about 11.51 per cent of the continent
North Asia: Siberia and the Asia-Pacifi c
and sustains around one-fourth of the world’s
region of Russia is referred to as North Asia. population, making it the most densely
Central Asia: Central Asia extends from populated geographical region in the world.
the Caspian Sea in the west to the border West Asia: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman,
of western China in the east. Th e region Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait,
consists of the former Soviet Republics of Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Lebanon and
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey make up West Asia.

Severnaya ARCTIC OCEAN Wrangel Is
Zemlya (U SA )
ARCTIC OCEAN New Siberian Is EAST SIBERIAN SEA Chukot Range
Cape Chelyuskin Lyakhov Is Ayon Is
LAPTEV SEA
TAIMYR Koryak Range Aleutian Islands
PENINSULA Kolyma KAMCHATKA
PENINSULA
Cherski Range 3147
YAMAL PENINSULA GYDA Koniv Ve r kh oy an sk R ang ea Kolyma Range Sredinny range Klyuchevskaya
Komandor Is
PENINSULA
Indigirk
4750
1701
A
Lena
Ob CENTRAL I Cape Lopatka
1894 WEST Lower Tunguska R SEA OF OKHOTSK
Narodnaya SIBERIAN StonyTunguska E Aklum Shantar Is s l
M ountains S PLAIN I B PLATEAU Stanovoy Range Sakhalin l
SIBERIAN
.
Yablonovyy Range
E U R O P E Tobal Ob Amur Kuri
Ural Sayan Angara L Baikal MANCHURIAN Hokkaido
PLAIN
Sungari
M ts .
Irrvsh
Belukha
PLAINOF WESTERN TURKISTAN
Black Sea 4506 MONGOLIAN ER T SEA OF Honsh u Mt. Fuji
JAPAN
Great Khingan Mts.
VSTYURT ARAL L Balkhash PLATEAU S 3776
SEA
Pontine Mts. CASPIAN PLATEAU Chu Iii E KOREA
Taurus Mts. 5165 D PENINSULA
Mt. Ararat KYZYL T ian Shan Turfan Basin GO B I GREAT YELLOW Shikoku
KUM
Sea
7439 PLAIN SEA Kyushu Bonin Is
Communism Pk. Tarim Basin OF CHINA Cheju Is
SEA
Mediterranean
Dead Sea Tigris Amudarya 7495 TAKLAMAKAN Nan Shan
KARA KUM
-403 Mt. Damavend Pamirs DESERT Huang He EAST
4548 K 2 7723 CHINA
SYRIAN 5604 Hindu Kush K unlun S h an Oin Ling SEA
5143 8126 8611
DESERT
PLATEAU OF IRAN Khyber Nanga PACIFIC
CyprusMESOPOTAMIA PLAIN
NAFUD Helmand Pass Parbat Karakora m TIBET PLATEAU OCEAN
Euphrates
DESERT Sutlej Grea t 7600 Yu Shan
GREATINDIAN Mt. Kamet
INDUS PLAIN 7756 H i m ala ya Taiwan
3997
Indus
Mt. Everest
8848
The Gulf
ARABIAN DESERT Brahmaputra Si Kiang
PENINSULA Jabal Akhdar Aravallis GANGA YAMUNA PLAIN SHAN Hong Babuyan Is
Ganga
RUB ’A L K HALI Masira Gulf of Vindhya Ra. PLATEAU Gulf of Tonking Hainan Is Luzom
Gulf of Oman
Kutch
DECCAN
Islands
3600 Gulf of Khambhat Satpura Ra. Arakan Yoma Irrawaddy Pegu Yoma SE A Mindoro Philippines
PLATEAU Mekang Parcel Is
Godavari
INDO
AFRICA Gulf of Aden ARABIAN Krishna CHINA CHINA
SEA PENINSULA
BAY OF
Height in Metres Socotra BENGAL Sulu Talaud
Sea
Isthmus Basilan Is
5000 of Kra SOUTH Kinabalu Sangihe Morotai
Lakshdweep Palk Strait Andaman & Nicobar 4101 Is
4000 Islands CELRRES SEA Puncak Jaya
Cape Camorin 5029
3000 Gulf of Mannar Natuna Sula Is Misool
2000 Maldives Dondra Buru Ceram Aru
Head
1000 Bo rneo Celebes Is
Tanimbar Is
500 Laut
I N D I A N O C E A N Sunda Is Belitung Cape Cape Seltan
Sumatra
200 Kerinci Puting East Indies Alor
3800
0 Bali Timor
J a v a Sumba AUSTRALIA
A map showing the physical regions of Asia
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