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Views of Asia Australia and New Zealand TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Pakistan A Young Country with an Ancient History 38 Sri Lanka Island Nation of Natural Riches 40 Asia The Largest Continent EAST ASIA China Asia's Largest Country 8 THE MIDDLE EAST AND TRANSCAUCASIA The Great Wall Ancient China's Giant Guardian 10 Yerevan Armenia City of Cafés 42 Japan Volcanoes Earthquakes and Plum Rains 12 Iran Modern Persia 44 Korean Peninsula An Asian Land Divided 14 Baghdad Iraq City of Arabian Nights 46 Israel The Jewish State 48 SOUTHEAST ASIA Jerusalem Holy City 50 Phnom Penh Cambodia The City of Lady Penh 16 Amman Jordan City on Seven Hills 52 Beirut Lebanon The City of Wells 54 Angkor Wat Cambodia's Treasured Temple 18 Indonesia Island Nation of Southeast Asia 20 Mecca Saudi Arabia Holiest city of Islam 56 Damascus Syria Pearl of the East 58 Singapore The Lion City 22 Bangkok Thailand City of Angels 24 Istanbul Turkey City on Two Continents 60 Vietnam North and South 26 AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND soUTH ASIA Australia Island Continent 62 28 Sydney Australia A Magnificent Harbor City 64 Afghanistan Mountain Country Bangladesh Land of the Bengals 30 New Zealand Land of the Long White Cloud 66 Wellington New Zealand A Visit to New Thimphu Bhutan City in the Heart of the Himalayas 32 India Land of Temples and Shrines 34 Taj Mahal Wonder of the World 36 Zealand's Capital 68 GLOSSARY 70 INDEX an LEARNING LIBRARY Have a great
RCH Le PE IS SI S X in 1 True or false The highest point on Earth is in Asia 34 11 19 26 21 23 16 18 15 14 20 22 31 28 47 30 38 24 N 25 36 WARD 13 DID YOU KNOW Asia is the birthplace of all the major religions of the world Statue of Buddha in Satchanalai Thailand OR RoyaltyFree Corbis
A SIA The Largest Continent 17 sia is the world's largest continent It covers about one third of COUNTRIES OF ASIA the Earth's land and has about three fifths of the world's population 1 Afghanistan Japan China and India are some of the most familiar of Asia's 2 Armenia nearly 50 countries In fact Asia is so big that it's often easier to talk 3 Azerbaijan 4 Bahrain about the regions rather than the countries of Asia The region 5 Bangladesh names commonly used are North Asia Central Asia East Asia 6 Bhutan Southeast Asia South Asia and Southwest Asia the last one is 7 Brunei 8 Cambodia usually called the Middle East 9 China Most of the continent is made up of mountains and tablelands 10 East Timor The Himalayan mountain chain in South Asia includes the highest 11 Georgia point on Earth Mount Everest The Earth's lowest point the Dead 12 India 13 Indonesia Sea is in Asia too 14 Iran Asia is home to many kinds of animals Reindeer Arctic foxes 15 Iraq and hares seals walruses and lemmings can be found in the far 16 Israel north Elk brown bears and sables live in the cool forests Antelope 17 Japan 18 Jordan wild sheep and goats are found in the steppes and deserts Black 19 Kazakhstan bears pandas tigers and monkeys can be found in southern and 20 Kuwait eastern Asia Southern Asia is also noted for elephants leopards 21 Kyrgyzsta crocodiles cobras and peacocks 22 Laos 23 Lebanon Northern Asia has very cold winters and cool summers It is 24 Malaysia covered by tundravast treeless plains common in cold regions 25 Maldives Central Asia has cold winters and hot summers with little rainfall 26 Mongolia Southern Asia has a warm climate all year with a lot of rain There 27 Myanmar are rainforests all across southern Asia And nearly all Asian 28 Nepal 29 North Korea countries share one very important food plant rice 30 Oman 37 SD 32 LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES CHINA INDIA JAPAN 13 31 Pakistan 32 Philippines 33 Qatar 34 Russia part 35 Saudi Arabia 36 Singapore 37 South Korea 38 Sri Lanka 39 Syria 40 Tajikistan 41 Thailand 42 Turkey 43 Turk 44 United Arab Emirates 45 Uzbekistan 46 Vietnam o 10 47 Yemen esy uy s soJoA gunow meanou see Puom a 3NL Easy
