AH: L2 The Major Land Forms and Water Forms in Asia The following are the major land

d and water forms in Asia that you should memorize (including their locations). Asia is the biggest continent in the world so it is no wonder if the major land and water forms are that many. Mountains and mountain

Plains y Turan Basin (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) y Indo-Gangetic Plain (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan) y Tarim Basin (China) y Sichuan Basin (China) y Great Plain of China y Kanto Plain (Japan)

Lakes y Dead Sea y Caspian Sea y Aral Sea y Lake Baikal y Tnl Sap Straits y Strait of Hormuz y Bosporus y Strait of Malacca y Taiwan Strait y Korea Strait Gulfs and Bays y Persian Gulf y Bay of Bengal y Gulf of Thailand y Gulf of Tongking Seas y Mediterranean Sea y Black Sea y Red Sea y Arabian Sea y Andaman Sea y South China Sea y Sulu Sea y Philippine Sea y Java Sea y Celebes Sea y East China Sea y Yellow Sea y Sea of Japan / East Sea y Sea of Okhotsk Water Forms 1. Ganges River, India 2. Brahmaputra, India 3. Indus River, Pakistan 4. Yangtze River, China 5. Huang He (River), China 6. Ussuri River, Russia Land Forms 1. Taklimakan Desert, China 2. Gobi Desert, China-Mongolia 3. Yunnan Plateau, China 4. Mount K2, Pakistan-China 5. Mount Everest, Nepal-China 6. Tien Shan, China-Kyrgyzstan

ranges y Mount Everest / Sagarmatha / Qomolangwa (China, Nepal) y K2 / Godwin Austen (China, Pakistan) y Annapurna (Nepal) y Nanda Devi (India) y Kanchenjunga (India) y Gunung Kinabalu (Malaysia) y Elburz (Iran) y Mount Ararat (Turkey) y Mount Hira (Saudi Arabia) y Caucasus Mountains (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey) y Taurus Mountains (Turkey) y Hejaz and Azir Mountains (Saudi Arabia) y Zagros Mountains (Iran) y Hindu Kush (Afghanistan) y Karakoram Mountains (Pakistan) y Eastern and Western Ghats (India) y Tien Shan (China) y Pamir Mountains (China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) y Altai Mountains (Mongolia) y Himalayas (China, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan) Volcanoes y Pinatubo (Philippines) y Mayon (Philippines) y Taal (Philippines) y Tambora (Indonesia) y Krakatau (Indonesia) y Fuji (Japan) Plateaus y Anatolian Plateau (Turkey) y Iranian Plateau (Iran) y The Deccan (India) y Mongolian Plateau (Mongolia) y Plateau of Tibet (China)

Peninsulas y Arabian Peninsula (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen) y Malay Peninsula (Malaysia) y Korean Peninsula (North Korea, South Korea) y Kamchatka Peninsula (Russian Federation) Islands y Sri Lanka y Indonesian archipelago: Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Bali, Celebes, Papua y Philippine archipelago: Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Mindoro, Palawan y Japanese archipelago: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu y Sakhalin Island (Russian Federation) y Bahrain Deserts y Syrian Desert (Iraq, Jordan, Syria) y Arabian Desert and Ar Rub al Khali / Empty Quarter (Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen) y Dash-e-Lut and Dash-eKavir (Iran) y Kara Kum and Kyzyl Kum (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) y Thar Desert (India, Pakistan) y Takla Makan Desert (China) y Gobi Desert (Mongolia) Rivers y Jordan y Tigris and Euphrates y Amu Darya and Syr Darya y Rivers of Siberia (Ob-Irtysh, Angara-Yenisey, and Lena) y Indus y Ganges y Brahmaputra y Irrawaddy y Salween y Chao Phraya y Mekong y Yangtze / Jiang Xiang y Huang He