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Asia’s natural resources

Mineral resources: minerals in Asia and more, large reserves, mainly oil, coal, iron, tin, tungsten, antimony, copper, lead, zinc, manganese, nickel, molybdenum, magnesium, chromium, gold, silver, salt, sulfur, gems and so on. Oil, magnesium, iron, tin and other reserves tops in every continent first.

Forests and grasslands: the world’s total forest area of about 13% of [...]

Asian environment

The mainland coastline of Asia and tortuous coastline of 69,900 km. Is the world’s longest coastline Island. Coast type complex. Multi peninsula and islands, is a peninsula, the largest Island. The Arabian Peninsula to the world’s largest peninsula (an area of about 3 million square km). Kalimantan is the world’s third largest island. The general [...]

Asian countries, area, population

Closing the first half of 2007, the Asian population, 3.513 billion, 6.567 billion world population. More than 100 million population are China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The urban population accounts for about 18% of the continental population. Distribution of population in eastern China, Japan, the Pacific coast of Java Island, Ganges River, India [...]

Asian geography

Coast: the mainland coastline of 69,900 km. Multi peninsula and islands. The total area of the peninsula about 1,000 million square kilometers, is the largest peninsula, a continent, the Arabian Peninsula to the world’s largest peninsula. Islands total area of about 2.7 million square kilometers, second only to North America ranks second in the world. [...]

Asia Overview

Asia is the Asian continent Abbreviations:
Asian continents (ancient Greek origin: Ασία; Latin: Asia; French: Asie; English: Asia), referred to as Asia, is the largest of the seven continents, across the widest latitude, something the longest and most populous continent. The total area covering 8.6% of the Earth (or 29.4% of the total land area). Population [...]

Major countries in South America

Brazil
Brazil in South America east of the east Atlantic. Area of 850 square kilometers. Population of 186,957,906 (June 2, 2008). Brazil is South America’s largest and most populous country, area ranked fifth in the world.
Brazil mainly by the northern plains and the southern Brazilian Amazon, the composition of the plateau. Brazilian territory, 1 / 3 [...]

Peru is the world’s reserves of vanadium the most;

Chile’s copper reserves are the largest in the world;

Chile saltpeter is the world’s largest reserves;

Colombian emerald is the world’s largest reserves;

Colombian rock salt mine Xi Paji December the world’s largest;

Brazil’s Itaipu Dam is the world’s second dam.

Ecuador vilcabamba Village is the world’s longevity village.

Brazil is the world’s largest highland plateau.

Amazon plain is the world’s largest alluvial plain.

Water and the largest river basin – Amazon

South American economies

Overview
After World War II, rapid economic development in South America, the economic structure changed significantly. But the national economic level and economic strength far apart. Brazil, Argentina has established a relatively complete national economic system, China’s GDP accounted for about the whole Island 2 / 3. Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Peru, more developed economy.

Mining Industry
Mining and [...]

Natural disasters in South America

South America mainly by three major disasters, namely earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the El Niño phenomenon, causing human casualties, property damage and other events, the impact of a country should not be underestimated.

Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Orogeny in South America that by the South American plate and the plate Zika Hai each extrusion, the formation of [...]

Climate
Most parts of South America, tropical rain forests and savannah climate. Climate characterized by warm and humid, with tropical-based, the mainland is not significant. All continents except mountains, the average temperature of the coldest month in winter were more than 0 ℃, accounting for the major part of the mainland tropical areas, the average temperatures [...]