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Author: WandererCoast: 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. Kalimantan is the world’s third largest island.
Asian terrain: the general characteristics of Asian terrain is the terrain of high, fluctuating surface, intermediate high, surrounded by low, uplift and depression phase, there is a vertical eastern long island arc-shaped flower color. The average altitude of about 950 m, is the world except Antarctica one of the highest-lying Island. Mountain, plateau and hill

Ling total area of about 3 / 4, of which 1 / 3 region in the 1000 meters above sea level. Plain of the total area of 1 / 4, total 1 000 million square kilometers. All continents as large as the center to the Pamirs, a series of tall mountains, extending to the mainland to the edge of the Quartet of radiation. There are the Tianshan Mountains, Kunlun Mountains, Himalayan Mountains, Altai Mountains, Hindu Kush mountain range, the Alborz Mountains, Taurus Mountains and the Zagros Mountains, etc.. Between the main mountain range above the Tibetan Plateau, Mongolian Plateau, the Iranian plateau, Anatolian plateau and the Tarim, Junggar Basin, Qaidam Basin. In the mountains, the plateau area of the lateral distribution of the vast plain, mainly the Northeast Plain, North China Plain, in the Yangtze River, the Indus plains, the Ganges plain, the Mesopotamian Plain, West Siberian plains. Asia, both the world’s highest plateau (plateau), mountains and peaks (Mount Everest), but also the world famous Plain (West Siberian Plain) and depression (date the Dead Sea). Asia is not only the extreme ups and downs on land and on the eastern margin of the curved part of the archipelago and the Pacific Ocean also showed the extreme ups and downs, Islands on the mountain range associated with deep ocean trench. Asia’s highest peak and deepest trench adjacent sea level difference of about 20 km. Rivers and lakes: There are many rivers in Asia, mostly from the central mountain area, radial to the four torrents. Heilongjiang rivers flow into the Pacific Ocean, the Yellow River, Yangtze River, Pearl River, Mekong, etc.; into the Indian Ocean, the Indian River, Ganges, Salween, Irrawaddy River, the Tigris, Euphrates, etc.; into the Arctic Ocean are the Ob River, Yenisey River Lena River. Within the river are mainly distributed in Asia, central and western arid region, Syr Darya, Amu Darya, Ili, and Tarim, Jordan and so on. Asia’s tallest waterfall is applied wax figures that the southwestern coast of India on the river jog falls, drop 253 meters.
Asia than in other continents are not too many lakes, many lakes, distinctive, world-famous. Such as the Asia-Europe sector, the sea is the world’s first Great Lakes lake, the largest saltwater lake; Lake Baikal is the world’s deepest lake, Asia’s largest freshwater lake; Dead Sea is the lowest in the world depression; Balkhash Lake is the simultaneous existence of fresh water and salt water inland lake.
Hydrology: Most rivers in Asia originated in the central mountains and into the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. Of which more than 4,000 kilometers long river has seven, the longest river the Yangtze River, followed by the source of the Irtysh River Lena. The Caspian Sea is the world’s largest lake, Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in Asia is the world’s deepest, most ancient lake, the deepest lake at 1295 m below sea level. Amu Darya length 2540 km, is Asia’s longest river within. Tigris and Euphrates, the Yellow River, the Indian River are the earliest human civilization originated

Land. Ganges is the holy river of Hinduism and Buddhism. Mekong River is an important international river, the Mekong basin countries, including China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Geography Collection
Himalayas – the world’s tallest mountains, the mountains more than 7000 meters above sea level there are more than 50.
Everest – highest peak of the Himalayas, the world’s highest peak, elevation 8844.43 m
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau – the world’s highest large plateau, with an average altitude of 4,500 meters, the “roof of the world,” said.
West Siberian Plain – Asia’s largest plain, an area of 2.6 million square kilometers.
Caspian Sea - the world’s largest lakes, or lagoons, an area of about 370,000 square kilometers.
Lake Baikal – the world’s deepest and largest freshwater storage capacity, maximum depth of 1620 meters, water storage volume of 23,000 cubic km.
Dead Sea – the lake 400 meters below sea level, is the world’s lowest point on land. Because excessive salt lake, the lake, in addition to bacteria, other biological survive.
Arabian Peninsula – the world’s largest peninsula, an area of about 3,000,000 square kilometers.
Malaysia – the world’s largest archipelago, scattered in the Pacific and Indian Ocean waters between the vast, including more than 20,000 islands covering 2.43 million square kilometers.
Suez Canal – the Pacific and Indian Ocean, the crossroads of Asia and Oceania, is an important oil transportation routes.