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- Himalaya (16334 bytes)
1: ...e for the range is Himalaya, though the plural '''Himalayas''' is often used.
3: ... million people live in the watershed area of the Himalayan rivers, which also includes [[Bangladesh]].
5: ...east from over the [[Tibetan Plateau]]. ([[:Image:himalaya_annotated.jpg|annotated version]])]]
9: ...he east. The width varies between 250-300 km. The Himalayan range comprises three parallel ranges, arranged ...
10: ...re. The northernmost range is called the ''Higher Himalaya'' and is also the oldest of the three. It has an ...
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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - Camellia (2759 bytes)
13: ...ber of species considered distinct, with anything from 100–250 species being accepted.
16: ... pink and red, and yellow in a few species. The [[fruit]] is a dry capsule subdivided into 1–5 c...
21: ...rcial importance for '''[[tea]]''', which is made from its leaves.
24: ...irst flowers to appear in the late winter. Late [[frost]]s can damage the flowers. - Hydrangea (4213 bytes)
15: ...tern [[Asia]] (from [[Japan]] to [[China]], the [[Himalaya]] and [[Indonesia]]) and [[North America|North]] ...
17: Hydrangeas produce [[flower]]s from early [[Spring (season)|spring]] to late [[autu...
19: ...t accumulate [[aluminium]]. Aluminium is released from acidic soils, and forms complexes in the hydran...
23: *''[[Hydrangea anomala]]'' (Climbing Hydrangea). Himalaya, southwest China.
27: *''[[Hydrangea heteromalla]]''. Himalaya, west and north China. - Rhododendron (3464 bytes)
24: '''''Rhododendron''''' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]]: ''rhodos'', "rose...
32: ...o-Himalayan]] [[mountain]]s of southeast [[Asia]] from central [[Nepal]] and [[Sikkim]] east to [[Yunn...
40: ... [[nectar]]. People have been known to become ill from eating [[honey]] made by [[bee]]s feeding on rh... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: '''Geology''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] γη- (''ge-''...
3: ... which includes the [[Crust (geology)|crust]], is fragmented into [[tectonic plates]] that move over a...
10: ...gical [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed...
12: ...her languages of Europe such as [[French language|French]]. [[Georg Bauer]] (Georg Agricola), a physic...
16: ... the [[Volcano|volcanic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of th... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...nst one another), divergent (two plates move away from each other), and transform (two plates slide pa...
8: ...h the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost to outermost) [[Earth#The core|core]]...
12: ...crust|oceanic]] lithospheres; for example, the [[African Plate]] includes the continent and parts of t...
18: ...oundaries]]''' occur where two plates slide apart from each other.
24: ...use highly visible surface effects. Because of [[friction]], the plates cannot simply glide past each... - Mountain (4538 bytes)
7: ...tems. This form of landscape can be seen in East Africa, the Vosges, the Basin and Range province of W...
11: ...subject to [[glaciation]] and [[erosion]] through frost action. This produces the classic mountain [[p...
14: ...centre than Everest. The peak that rises farthest from its base is [[Mauna Kea]] on [[Hawaii]], whose ... - Indo-Australian Plate (2019 bytes)
3: ...[Seafloor spreading]] separated these land masses from one another, but as the spreading centers becam...
5: ...ormer land mass of [[Tasmantis]], which separated from Australia 85 million years ago. The central par...
7: ...ndary]] with the [[Eurasian Plate]] forming the [[Himalaya]] and [[Hindu Kush]] [[mountain]]s.
9: ...sian plate on the borders of the [[Indian Ocean]] from [[Bangladesh]], to [[Myanmar]] (former [[Burma]... - Asia (16910 bytes)
4: ...defined by subtracting the [[Europe]]an peninsula from Eurasia. [[geology|Geologically]] and [[geograp...
6: ...sia and Europe: the demarcation between Asia and Africa is the [[isthmus]] of [[Suez Canal|Suez]]. The...
12: ...o the Semitic word 'erebu', which means "to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) i...
24: ...rderline cases between Asia and Europe, Asia and Africa and Asia and Oceania.
71: * the [[Himalayan States]] of [[India]], [[Pakistan]], [[Nepal]], ... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...y, it remains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
15: ...time in a century, and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, w...
19: ...r. Mao remained head of the Party but was removed from day to day management of economic affairs which...
23: ...ut) and a much wider range of personal rights and freedoms for average Chinese as evidence of the succ...
27: ...ost Chinese dissidents living abroad, many people from Hong Kong or Taiwan, ethnic minorities like Tib... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
34: | from [[Pakistan]]<br>[[March 26]] [[1971]]
47: | '''[[National Fruit]]''' || [[Jackfruit]]
65: ...], and there are even claims of social structures from around [[1000 BC]]. Early civilizations had Bud...
67: ...ntrolled the region by the late [[18th century]], from which the [[United Kingdom|British]] extended [...
69: ...ment of Pakistan changed the name of the province from [[East Bengal (province)|East Bengal]] to [[Eas... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em... - Nepal (22444 bytes)
1: '''The Kingdom of Nepal''', situated in the [[Himalaya]], is the world's only [[Hindu]] [[kingdom]]. It ...
58: ...epali groups known to historians, having migrated from the east in the [[7th century BC|7th]] or [[8th...
81: ...ills constituting the [[Hill Region]]; the high [[Himalaya]], with 8,850-[[metre]] (29,035-[[foot (unit of l...
83: ...order. The vista and majesty of Everest and the [[Himalaya]]n range, including eight of the world's top ten ...
85: ... five climatic zones based on altitude that range from subtropical in the south, to cool summers and s... - Desert (21206 bytes)
18: ...ey should be designated as specifically different from the simple definition of a desert: a place whe...
20: ...s an [[ice cap]] if the temperature remains below freezing year-round, rendering the land almost compl...
22: ... other areas are arid by virtue of being very far from the nearest available sources of moisture (this...
28: ...orld's largest desert, the [[Sahara]] of [[North Africa]], which has experienced temperatures as high ...
32: ... These deserts are in interior [[watershed]]s far from oceans and have a wide range of annual temperat... - India (27950 bytes)
5: ...indus'' in [[Persian language|Persian]], was used from [[Mughal]] times onwards, though its contempora...
13: ...an]] kingdoms, and finally the [[Kushan Empire]]. From the [[3rd century]] onwards the [[Gupta|Gupta d...
21: ...ndia. On [[1947-08-15]] India gained independence from British rule, later becoming a [[republic]] on ...
23: ...as a [[secular]] democracy barring a brief period from [[1975]] to [[1977]] during which the then [[Pr...
32: ...rime Minister, but this option has been exercised from time to time. - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
2: ... to label the [[season]] in which this wind blows from the southwest in [[India]] and adjacent areas t...
5: ...rom the southwest during one half of the year and from the northeast during the other.
10: ...ow pressure, an ''extremely'' constant wind blows from the ocean. The [[rainfall]] is caused by the mo...
18: ...pical]] continents of Asia, [[Australia]], and [[Africa]] and the adjacent seas and oceans. It is with...
23: ...esterly to southerly. Moisture is drawn northward from the [[Gulf of California]] into northern [[Mexi... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
13: ...ginally developed by Morse and his assistant, [[Alfred Vail]]. In 1848 a refinement of the code sequen...
17: ...inning in the mid-1830s, [[Samuel Morse]] and [[Alfred Vail]] developed an [[electric telegraph]], whi...
23: ...a language that is ''heard'', instead of one read from a page[http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/learncw/]...
27: ...selves for service information like link quality, frequency changes, and telegram numbering.
29: ...nce." ''See also:'' [[international distress frequency]] - Mustard (7834 bytes)
22: ...juncea''), originally from the foothills of the [[Himalaya]], is grown commercially in the [[U.K.]], [[Canad...
26: ...el similar to [[diesel]] fuel. The biodiesel made from mustard oil has good cold flow properties and [...
32: ...and bring back to him a single mustard seed taken from a house where no person had died. [[Jesus]]'s p...
34: ... occurs between an [[enzyme]] and a [[glucoside]] from the seeds, resulting in the production of the o...
38: ...own paste with a sharp [[taste]] that is prepared from the ground mustard seeds, by mixing them with w... - Glacier (6999 bytes)
3: ...ir of total water. The [[Siachen glacier]] in the Himalaya is the largest alpine glacier in the world. Glaci...
7: ...de end, lateral and medial [[moraine]]s that form from glacially transported rocks and debris; [[glaci...
11: ...glacier's movement. In the summer, the melted ice from the glacier alone may be enough to create a str...
13: ... the glacier thins to nothing is called the [[ice front]].
19: ...n [[rock flour]], an extremely fine powder ground from the underlying rock by the glacier's movement. - Siachen glacier (3348 bytes)
1: ...ri in the Karakoram range and the altitudes range from 18,000 to 24,000 ft. The major passes on this r...
3: ... place of roses', a reference to the abundance of Himalayan [[wildflower]]s found in the valleys below the g...
7: ...ons arrived on the glacier with a permit obtained from the Government of Pakistan. Operation [[Meghdoo...
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