Asian Physical Geography

## Bays and Gulfs (10)

* Bay of Bengal
* Bay of Bangkok
* Gulf of Aden - Area between Yemen and Somalia
* Gulf of Thailand
* Gulf of Oman - Area between Oman and Iran
* Persian Gulf
* Korea Bay - Coasts include North Korea's and China's
* Gulf of Suez
* Gulf of Aqaba - Runs along the Sinai Peninsula's eastern coast
* Gulf of Tonkin - Runs along Vietnam's northern coast and China's coast

## Deserts (5)

* Arabian Desert - Arabian Peninsula
* Thar Desert - Central portion of the India-Pakistan border
* Karakum Desert - Turkmenistan
* Gobi Desert - Southern Mongolia and China
* Kyzyl-Kum Desert - Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

## Islands and Archipelagos (17 islands)

* Malay Archipelago/Indonesian Archipelago/East Indies
	+ Greater Sunda Islands
		- Sumatra - Western
		- Java - Southern
		- Borneo - Northern
		- Sulawesi - Eastern
	+ New Guinea
	+ Komodo Island
* Ceylon/Sri Lanka
* Taiwan
* Major Japanese Islands
	+ Hokkaido (northern)
	+ Honshu (central)
	+ Shikoku - smaller islands of Honshu's east coast
	+ Kyushu - (southern)
* Major Philippines Islands
	+ Luzon - northernmost with Manila, Quezon City, and Caloocan on it
	+ Visayas - Group of islands making up the Philippine's central region. Has Cebu City.
	+ Mindanao - southernmost with Davao City on it
* Kuril Islands - Strands the area between the Kamchatka Peninsula and Hokkaido
* Hainan Island - Larger island off China's southern coast

## Mountains and Mountain Ranges (11)

* Himalaya Mountains - Nepal, India, China, Bhutan, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
* Altai Mountains - Mongolia, China, Russia, and Kazakhstan
* Karakoram - Area where the borders of India, China, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan meet
* Hindu Kush - Afghanistan and Pakistan
* Western Ghats - Run along southern India's West coast
* Eastern Ghats - Run along southern India's East coast
* Kunlun - Runs from central China through Tibet and Xinjiang
* Tian Shan - Runs through China and all -stan countries save Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan. The silk road ran along it.
* Zagros Mountains - Situated primarily in Iran but also runs through Iraq and Turkey
* Ural Mountains
* Caucus Mountains

#### Mountains

* Mount Everest - China-Nepal border

## Rivers (11)

* Yellow - Northern major Chinese river
* Yangtze - Central major Chinese river
* Pearl - Southern major Chinese river
* Mekong - Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Chinese
* Salween - Myanmar, China
* Irrawaddy - Myanmar, China
* Brahmaputra - Bangladesh, China; runs around the Himalayas
* Ganges - Bangladesh and India
* Indus River - Pakistan, India, and a bit of China
* Tigris River
* Euphrates River

## Seas (16)

* Sea of Okhotsk - Formed by the Kamchatka Peninsula
* Sea of Japan/East Sea - Formed by Japan, Russia, and the Korean Peninsula
* Yellow Sea - Formed by China and the Korean Peninsula
* East China Sea - The sea off the coast of China and North of Taiwan
* South China Sea - South of Taiwan
* Philippine Sea - Off the Philippine's eastern coast
* Java Sea - Has Borneo to the North, Bali to the South, and Sumatra to the West
* Andaman Sea - Runs along the western coast of the Malay Peninsula
* Sulu Sea - Region between the Philippines and Bornea
* Arabian Sea - Between the Arabian Peninsula, Indian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa
* Laptev Sea - eastern sea North of Siberia
* Kara Sea - western sea North of Siberia
* Red Sea
* Caspian Sea
* Aral Sea
* Black Sea

## Peninsulas (5)

* Kamchatka Peninsula
* Malay Peninsula
* Arabian Peninsula
* Sinai Peninsula
* Korean Peninsula