some 700 miles (1,100 km) southward from the mainland intoinsular Southeast Asiais theMalay Peninsula; this peninsula structurally is part of the mainland, but it also shares many ecological and culturalaffinitieswith the surrounding islands and thus functions as a bridge between the two regions....
Asiais traditionally divided into six regions:East Asia,South East Asia,South Asia,Central Asia, theMiddle EastandRussiaand the Caucasus. Each region has its own distinct flavor and travelers can't be said to have truly experienced the continent until they have visited each of them at least on...
The paleotectonic units of Asia are divided into two first-order classes:continental nucleiandorogenic(mountain-building) zones. The continental nuclei consist ofplatforms that stabilized mostly inPrecambrian time(between roughly 4 billion and 541 million years ago) and have been covered largely by lit...
List of countries on the basis of region Geographically, Asia is divided into 6 regions: North Asia South Asia West Asia Central Asia East Asia Southeast Asia North Asia The gigantic Russia constitutes the entire region of North Asia, and extends across the Urals into Europe. The Soviet Union ...
In geographical literature Asia is divided into major sections: North Asia, which includes Siberia and the extreme northeast of the continent; East Asia, which is made up of the continental south of the Soviet Far East, Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Northeast and East China, the Kore...
The geography of Southeast Asia is divided into two sections:Indochina(mainland Southeast Asia) and the Malaysia peninsula, which includes the island archipelagos. These regions primarily have tropical and maritime climates. Countries on the mainland include Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Viet...
, can be used for drawing the map of Japan and its regions while working in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software. The vector stencils library Japan contains contours for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software. This library is contained in the Continent ...
In this article, the tectonic background and evolution of Eastern Asia as a whole are studied from the results of numerous authors relative to different sub-regions. Our synthetic study shows that the tectonic evolution of Eastern Asia can be divided into three stages: the generation stage of ...
In this study, Asia was firstly divided into regions with different groundwater infiltration coefficients according to different infiltration recharge conditions of groundwater, such as landforms, terrain, average multiyear precipitation, hydrologic conditions, lithology of aeration zones and aquifer media. ...
a wealth of ancient textual literature inSanskrit,Prākrit, and regional languages is a major unifying factor. Music and dance, ritual customs, modes of worship, and literary ideals are similar throughout South Asia, even though the region has been divided into kaleidoscopic political patterns throug...