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

- - - - 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
      - 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.
    - - Baykal Lake: It is located south of Russia, is the deepest in the world (1,620 m). It contains 20% of the liquid fresh water in the world, which makes it the largest reservoir of water on Earth. It is also the oldest lake, it is 25 million years old.
      - The Yangtze: It is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world (behind the Amazon of South America and the Nile of Africa). The Yangtze is considered the lifeblood of China. It drains one-fifth of the country’s land area, is home to one-third of its population, and contributes greatly to China’s economy.
      - The Tigris and Euphrates rivers begin in the heights of Eastern Turkey and flow from Syria and Iraq joining in the city of Qurna, Iraq, before emptying into the Persian Gulf. The land between the two rivers, known as Mesopotamia, was the center of the earliest civilizations, including Sumer and the Akkadian Empire