Collection of maps of Southwest Asia. Other maps of Southwest Asia (Southwest Asia maps).
Three seismic activity maps, the A-value map, the b-value map and the returnperiod map for earthquakes with magnitude 6 and above, have been prepared for the southwest Asia region using the Kaila and Narain (1971) method, and the same are compared with regional tectonics. For the preparatio...
Population density map of South Asia. Image © Robert Szucs / Grasshopper Geography Hungarian analyst and cartographer Robert Szucs shared with ArchDaily another of his series of maps, this time addressing the population distribution on Earth. A large blackboard, identifying only the geopolitical boun...
In dryland environments such as much of Southwest Asia, rainfall is often used as a proxy for soil moisture available for crop production, and in pre-industrial societies this is assumed to directly relate to food production capacity and security. However, rainfall values are commonly quoted in ...
Home/Asia/Syria Syria, officially known as the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. Syria's capital and largest city is Damasc...
Understanding the ancient migrations of peoples and the diffusion of technologies such as pottery, bronze and iron, as well as myth and symbols, into northeast Siberia and the Bering Strait is easier if you understand the regions of East Asia and Siberia. The same is true for distribution of ...
2,500,000 to 150,000 years ago) and was characterized by the use of simple stone hand axes, choppers, and cleavers. First evident about 1,500,000 years ago, it seems to have spread from eastern Africa throughout the continent and also to Europe and Asia during the Middle Pleistocene Ep...
A large part of the country consists of a flat plateau covered by dry deciduous forestland, although in the southwest a dense tropical rainforest spreads across the land. In the northwest the landscape changes to form mountains rising up to 2000mt above sea level. There are two official ...
Island. Neighbors areJapanto the east and northeast, thePeople’s Republic of China(PRC) to the west (mainland China) and thePhilippinesto the south separated by Luzon Strait. The Philippine Sea lies to the east, the South China Sea to the southwest, and the East China Sea to the north...
Lawrence Island and Russia’s Chukotskiy (Chukchi) Peninsula and to the southwest, between Attu Island, the westernmost island of the Alaskan Aleutian chain, and the Russian Komandor Islands. The boundary leaves a patch of international waters, known as the “Doughnut Hole,” in the Bering ...