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Mount Nekomadake (猫魔ヶ岳, Nekoma-dake, Nekoma-gadake) is a stratovolcano located west of Mount Bandai, close to Bandai town and Kitashiobara village in the Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. It is 1,403.6 metres high, and close to Lake Inawashiro and Oguni-numa Pond. Nekoma volcano is thought to be 0.8 - 1 million years old. [1] [2] Nekoma ...
Topography of Asia. This article lists the highest natural elevation of each sovereign state on the continent of Asia defined physiographically.States sometimes associated with Asia politically and culturally, but not geographically part of Asia, are not included in this list of physical features (with the exception of Cyprus - marked with a N/A rank entry).
⦁ Asia Mount Everest, [1] China and Nepal: 8848 m 29,029 ft Dead ... The summit of Mount Everest in China and Nepal is the highest point on Earth.
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
Russia, or "the Russian Federation," is a nation of Europe. The "Northern Asia" name is unofficially recognized; for example, the UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names includes an Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division. "Northern Asia" comes from traditional usage, which divides Europe from Asia at the Ural Mountains.
The Maps of Snow Mountains in China. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Finnish Meteorological Inst. (1990s). Nepal Topographic Maps. Nepalese Survey Dept. "High Mountain Info". High Mountain Sports Magazine (now Climb Magazine). (1990–2005). Neate, Jill (1990). High Asia: An Illustrated History of the 7,000 Metre Peaks. Mountaineers Books.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The Roof of the World or Top of the World is a metaphoric epithet or phrase used to describe the highest region in the world, also known as High Asia. The term usually refers to the mountainous interior of Asia, including the Pamirs , the Himalayas , the Tibetan Plateau , the Hindu Kush , the Tian Shan , the country of Nepal , and the Altai ...