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Author: WandererThe 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 characteristics of Asian terrain is very undulating surface, the central mountains together, mountains, plateaus and hills about the whole Island area 3 / 4. Island-wide average elevation of 950 m, is the world’s highest altitude except Antarctica A Chau. Broadly to the whole Island was in the Pamirs

Heart out to the four series of tall mountains, the tallest is the Himalayas. In between the tall mountains there are many large plateau and basin area. In the mountains, the plateau is also distributed outside the vast plains. Asia has many well-known peak, the world’s altitude 8000 meters above the summit, all located in the Karakorum Mountains and the Himalayas area, including Mount Everest, altitude 884 4.43 meters. Asia has the world’s lowest land depression and lake – the Dead Sea (lake below the Mediterranean sea, 392 meters), also known as the “roof” of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Asia is the world’s largest volcanic Island. Around the eastern edge of the island group is overseas, the world’s most volcanic regions. The east coast islands, north of frequent earthquakes in Central Asia and West Asia. Many rivers originate in the central Asian mountains, respectively, into the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. The main flow zone located in the central and western Asia. Asia’s longest river the Yangtze River, 6397 kilometers long; followed by the Yellow River, 5464 kilometers long; 4,500 km long Mekong River. The longest river is the Volga River flow (the world’s longest) (3,690 km), followed by the Amu Darya and Tarim (2179 km). Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in Asia and the world’s deepest lake.
Across Asia, cold, warm, hot three zones, the basic characteristics of its climate is strongly continental climate, typical monsoon climate, climate type complex. Belonged to the frigid tundra along the northern climate in Haiti. Most areas of Siberia, temperate coniferous forest climate. The east by the Pacific mid-latitudes are

Topographic Map of Asia
Monsoon climate, the south and the transition to the subtropical forest climate. Tropical rain forest in Southeast Asia and South Asia monsoon climate and tropical climate near the equator more than a tropical rainforest climate. Most parts of Central and West Asia is desert and steppe climate. West Asia, the Mediterranean is a subtropical Mediterranean climate, eastern Siberia, Verkhoyansk and oymyakon extreme minimum temperature had reached -71 degrees Celsius, the coldest place in the northern hemisphere.
Complex and diverse weather patterns in Asia because
1, North-South cross-over latitude, heat a large difference between the conditions.
2, East longitude across many different conditions of precipitation, a large,
3, varied topography, diverse types of terrain, elevation differences were large.
Asia, mainly in the southeast islands of the sea. About tens of thousands of small islands with a total area of 3.2 million square kilometers, of which more than 100,000 square kilometers area of the Big Island has six (Kalimantan, Sumatra Island, Guinea, Sulawesi, Java Island and Honshu Island).
Asia is the world’s largest collection of continental rivers, more than 1,000 km in length, 58 as many rivers, of which more than 4,000 kilometers with 5 (the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Mekong River, Irtysh River (Ob River) and Heilongjiang).