ASIA MAP TERMS:
ISLANDS:
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Sumatra
Borneo
Java
Celebes (Sulawesi)
New Guinea
Luzon, Mindanao,
Taiwan
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
Kuril Islands,
Sakhalin
Novaya Zemlya
PENINSULAS:
Arabian
Indian
Indochina
Malay
Korean
Kamchatka
RIVERS/LAKES:
Tigris/Euphrates (Iraq)
Ganges (India), Indus (Pakistan)
Huang He "Yellow" (China)
Lena, Ob, Yenisey, (Siberia)
Lake Baikal (north of Mongolia)
Brahmaputra (India)
Yangtze (China)
Amur (China/Russia)
MOUNTAINS:
Himalaya (Tibet-India)
Urals
Caucasus
Divide Europe/Asia
REGIONS:
Kirghiz Steppe
West Siberian Lowland (Great Siberian Plain)
North China Plain (Great Plain of China)
Great Indian Desert (Thar)
Gobi Desert
Syrian Desert
Tibetan Plateau
Iranian Plateau
Anatolian Plateau (Turkey)
SEAS:
Sea of Japan
Yellow Sea
Black
Caspian
Aral
Bay of Bengal
Persian Gulf
Arabian Sea
Bering Sea
East China Sea
Kara Sea
Barents Sea
Sea of Okhotsk
South China Sea
Asian countries/regions:
SOUTHWEST ASIA:
Transcaucasian Republics: 3 Georgia, Armenia,
Azerbaijan
Syria
Lebanon
Israel
"West Bank"-Palestine, Gaza
Turkey
Iraq
Jordan
Iran
Afghanistan
Arabian Peninsula:
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
UAE (United Arab Emirates)
Qatar
Bahrain
Kuwait
SOUTH ASIA
Pakistan
India
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
Nepal
Bhutan
EAST ASIA
Mongolia
China- PRC & ROC (Taiwan)
North, South Korea
Japan
CENTRAL ASIA
The "5 Stans" (former Soviet republics):
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan,
Kirghizstan
Asiatic Russia: Siberia (from Ural Mountains to
Pacific Ocean)
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Indochina Peninsula:
Vietnam, Cambodia,
Laos, Thailand,
Myanmar (Burma).
Malaysia.
Brunei, Philippines
Indonesia, Singapore,
East Timor