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Asia and Oceania: relief, hydrography, climate - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The three main plateaus are:
        
        Iranian plateaus: It covers more than
        3.6 million km2 and embraces most of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.This plateau has two large deserts, the Dasht-e Kavir and Dasht-e Lut.
        
        The Deccan plateau: with an average height of 600m makes up most of southern India. The plateau and its main waterways—the Godavari and Krishna rivers—gently slope toward the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal
        
        he Tibetan plateau: It is considered the largest and highest area that ever existed in the history of the earth. The plateau covers an area of about half of the United States at an average height of 5,000 meters above sea level. It is known as the “Rooftop of the World”. These glaciers contain the largest volume of ice outside the poles.
        
        The landscape of central Asia: It is dominated by steppes, large flat areas covered with grass without forests. Mongolia can be divided into different areas of steppe: the mountainous steppe with trees, the arid steppe and the desert steppe.
- - - - Saltwater
      - The Persian Gulf: It has an area of more than 234,000 km2. The seabed beneath the Persian Gulf contains an estimated 50 percent of the world’s oil reserves.
      - The Okhotsk Sea: It stretches for 1.5 million km2 between mainland Russia and the Kamchatka Peninsula. The sea is largely frozen between October and March. Large ice floes make winter navigation almost impossible.
      - The Bengal: It is the largest bay in the world, with an extension of almost 2.2 million km2. and bordering Bangladesh