Asia and Oceania: relief, hydrography, climate

Asia

Oceania

Asia borders, to the west, Ural Mountains, and Caspian and Black sea. To the east, with the Pacific Ocean. To the north, with the Glacial Arctic ocean and to the south with the Indian Ocean.

Six of every ten inhabitants of the earth live in Asia.

The Indian subcontinent once established ties with Africa and collided with Eurasia some 50 to 55 million years ago, forming the Himalayas. The Indian subcontinent is still moving north into Asia, with the Himalayas growing about 2 inches per year.

Population: 4,366’689.881

Physical Regions:


  1. Mount systems
  2. Plateous
  3. Plains
  4. Steppes
  5. Deserts

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Oceania is the smallest continent on earth and it is mainly composed of thousands of islands in the central and southern areas of the eastern Pacific.

Russia is considered one of the largest continuous plains areas in the world. The plain contains some of the largest swamps and floodplains in the world. - Central Asia is dominated by a steppe landscape, a large area of flat grasslands without forests.

Population: 4,366’689.881 (

WATER BODIES

  • The Yangtze:

Freshwater

  • Baykal Lake: I

Saltwater

The Tigris and Euphrates r

The Okhotsk Sea

The Persian Gulf

The Bengal:

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