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Annamite Range in Hương Sơn District, Hà Tĩnh Province, Việt Nam Landscape south of the Annamite Mountain Range near Hoi Yen, Quảng Nam Province, Việt Nam. The Annamite Range or the Annamese Mountains (French: Chaîne annamitique; Lao: ພູ ຫລວງ Phou Luang; Vietnamese: Dãy (núi) Trường Sơn) is a major mountain range of eastern Indochina, extending approximately 1,100 ...
On the north the boundary between the continents of Asia and Europe is commonly regarded as running through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River to its source, and a long border generally following the eastern side of the Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea, Russia.
The original drawing of the line in Wallace's paper. One of the earliest descriptions of the biodiversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago dates back to 1521 when Venetian explorer Pigafetta recorded the biological contrasts between the Philippines and the Maluku Islands (Spice Islands) (on opposite sides of the Wallace's Line) during the continuation of the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan ...
Due to its location and size, the Himalayas acts as a climatic barrier which affects the weather conditions of the Indian subcontinent and the regions north of the range. [75] The mountains are spread across more than eight degrees of latitude and hence includes a wide range of climatic zones including sub-tropical, temperate, and semi-arid.
List of mountain ranges in Asia. ... Highest mountain 'Max height (m) Al Hajar Mountains: Oman, United Arab Emirates: 500: Jebel Shams: 3,009 [1] Alagalla Mountain Range
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).
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Asia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maps of Asia . Subcategories
The Sea of Japan was landlocked when the land bridge of East Asia existed. [26] The Japan Arc started to form in the Early Miocene. [27] In the Early Miocene the Japan Sea started to open, and the northern and southern parts of the Japanese archipelago separated from each other. [27] During the Miocene, the Sea of Japan expanded. [27]