Asia Pacific Physical Geography

5. Extends for about 2,500 kilometres and separates the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia.
6. Approximately how many people depend on the rivers fed by the Tibetan Plateau’s glaciers.
7. A desert considered to be the world’s largest sand sea and is known as the ‘Empty Quarter’.
9. Largest bay in the world and borders Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Burma.
10. This country can be divided into different steppe zones such as; the mountain forest steppe, the arid steppe and the desert steppe.
12. The largest glacier on the Tien Shan mountain.
14. Makes up most of the southern part of India and is bordered by the Satpura Range and the Eastern and Western Ghats.
15. The longest river in Asia and reaches 6,300 kilometres in length.

1. Covers more than 3.6 million square kilometres and surrounds most of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
2. Contains an estimated 50% of the world’s oil reserves and is subject to high rates of evaporation.
3. Located in southern Russia and is the deepest and oldest lake in the world.
4. Located in Russia and is considered one of the world’s largest areas of continuous flatland.
7. Means “Celestial Mountains” in Chinese.
8. Runs in an indirect north-south line from Russia to Kazakhstan for approximately 2,500 kilometres.
9. Covers 1.5 million square kilometres between Russia mainland and Kamchatka Peninsula and is largely frozen between October and March.
11. Also known as the ‘Rooftop of the World’, covers an area about half the size of the contiguous United States and averages more than 5,000 meters above sea level.
13. Botanists have nicknamed this country the ‘Mother of Gardens’.