What Countries Make Up The Continent – Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world in both, area and population, constituting nearly one-third of the landmass, lying entirely north of the equator except for some Southeast Asian islands. It is connected to Africa by the Isthmus of Suez and borders Europe (part of the same landmass) along the Ural Mountains and across the Caspian Sea.
Area: about 49 700,000 km² (19,189,277 sq mi) it covers about 30 percent of Earth’s total land area.
Population: more than 4 billion human inhabitants (4.3 billion in 2013), about 60 percent of the world’s population. 1,33 billion of these people live in China. Seven out of ten of the most populated countries are in Asia (2010).
Highest Point: Sagarmatha (Chomolungma; known as Mount Everest) 8,848m (29,028 ft) Nepal.
Largest Lake: Caspian Sea (salt lake) 371 000 km² (143 250 sq mi),
Ozero Baykal, Lake Baikal 31 500 km² in Siberia is the world’s largest freshwater lake by volume.
Longest River: Yangtze (Yángzî Jiang, or Chang Jiang (simplified Chinese: 长江) China, 6,380 km (3,964 mi).
1. What do you already know about Asian Architecture? We don’t know much about Asian architecture.
2. What more would you want to learn? We want to learn more about Asian city, towns and village and there culture.
3. What is something new you learned by looking closely at these images? They have fancy decorations and there buildings were colourful. The bulidings were square and old. They have a beach close by and they have a oval what have animals in the midle of the city.