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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: ...tan 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: ...eginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...e existed and are viewed as having succeeded one another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last...
5: ...decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...some islands in the South China Sea. The PRC does not recognize the ROC, as it claims to be the sole s...
9: ==Terminology== - Camellia (2759 bytes)
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
13: ...ative to eastern and southern [[Asia]] from the [[Himalaya]] east to [[Japan]] and [[Indonesia]]. Different ...
18: ...lso have a high [[rain]]fall requirement and will not tolerate [[drought]]. - Hydrangea (4213 bytes)
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
15: ...Himalaya]] and [[Indonesia]]) and [[North America|North]] and [[South America]]. Most are [[shrub]]s 1...
23: *''[[Hydrangea anomala]]'' (Climbing Hydrangea). Himalaya, southwest China.
27: ...''[[Hydrangea heteromalla]]''. Himalaya, west and north China. - Rhododendron (3464 bytes)
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
32: ...ration of diversity occurs in the [[Himalaya|Sino-Himalayan]] [[mountain]]s of southeast [[Asia]] from centr...
34: ...uinea]]. They grow well in [[acid soil]], and are noted for their many clusters of large trumpet-shape...
40: ...a flowers. All parts of the rhododendron are poisonous to [[horse]]s, especially the leaves. - Geology (12007 bytes)
3: ...ron]], [[copper]], and [[uranium]]. Additional economic interests include minerals such as [[asbestos]...
5: ... system. However, specialised terms such as ''selenology'' (studies of the [[Moon]]), ''areology'' (of...
12: ...]] (Georg Agricola), a physician, summarized the knowledge of [[mining]] and [[metallurgy]] [[1556]].
16: ...tard recorded the first observation of the [[Volcano|volcanic]] origins of this part of France. [[Jame...
20: ...n had previously been supposed in order to allow enough time for mountains to be eroded and for [[sedi... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
1: ...s, the outer [[lithosphere]] and the inner [[asthenosphere]].
3: ...ch]] formation occur along plate boundaries (most notably around the so-called "[[Pacific Ring of Fire...
5: ...e early 20th century, and [[seafloor spreading]], noticed in the 1960s. The theory itself was develope...
8: ... asthenosphere. The relative fluidity of the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to undergo motio...
10: ...ench]]es. The majority of the world's active volcanoes occur along plate boundaries, with the Pacific ... - Mountain (4538 bytes)
5: Some isolated mountains were produced by [[volcano]]es, including many apparently small [[island]]s ...
7: ...Vosges, the Basin and Range province of Western [[North America]] and the [[Rhine]] valley.
9: Where rock does not fault it folds, either symmetrically or asymmetr...
14: ...[Ecuador]]. At 6,272 m above sea level it is not even the tallest peak in the [[Andes]], but beca...
16: The tallest known mountain in the [[solar system]] is Olympus Mon... - Indo-Australian Plate (2019 bytes)
3: ...spreading]] separated these land masses from one another, but as the spreading centers became inactive...
5: ...central part of Tasmantis sank below the sea, and now constitutes the [[Lord Howe Rise]].
7: ...ndary]] with the [[Eurasian Plate]] forming the [[Himalaya]] and [[Hindu Kush]] [[mountain]]s.
9: The north-east side of the [[Australian plate]] forms a ... - Asia (16910 bytes)
4: ...nd [[geography|geographically]], however, Asia is not considered a continent or a [[subcontinent]].
6: ...e [[Emba River]]) and the [[Ural Mountains]] to [[Novaya Zemlya]]. About 60 percent of the world's pop...
22: ...or further subdivisions based on that term, see [[North Eurasia]] and [[Central Eurasia]].
27: *[[North Asia]]
34: ===North Asia=== - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ... considerably [[privatization|privatized]] its economy in the past three decades. Politically, it rem...
6: ... term "[[mainland China]]" is sometimes used to denote the area under the PRC's rule, usually excludin...
17: ... or caused millions of deaths, incurred severe economic costs, and damaged China's cultural heritage. ...
19: ...]], [[Deng Xiaoping]] and others who initiated economic reforms.
21: ...tioning China's planned economy into a [[mixed economy]]. - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
1: ...iterally means "The Country of [[Bengal]]". Lying north of the [[Bay of Bengal]], on land it borders [...
3: ...4;ংলাদেশ<br>Gano Projātontrī Bānglādesh</big><...
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65: ...zations had Buddhist and/or [[Hindu]] influences. Northern Bangladesh has several sites of mass archit...
69: ...(province)|East Bengal]] corresponding to what is now Bangladesh, and a western part, the Indian state... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
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62: ...s conquered by various Central Asian groups, most notably the [[Tocharian]] [[Kushan]]s.
64: ...Kadphises' son [[Vima Takto]] conquered territory now in India, but lost much of the western parts of ...
72: ...hal Empire completely vulnerable. The British did not gain strong footholds in the Pakistani region un... - Nepal (22444 bytes)
1: ...h the [[People's Republic of China]] ([[Tibet Autonomous Region]]) and [[India]].
58: ...al (though the hilly and mountainous regions were not a part of Aśoka's Empire) in the [[1st cent...
62: .... Critics argue that the governmental reforms did not appreciably improve the political order because ...
64: ...public]] through a Maoist revolutionary strategy known as [[People's war]]. This has since grown to a ...
66: ...g the gun on himself. His [[suicide]] attempt was not immediately successful, however, and although in... - Desert (21206 bytes)
14: ...he amount of precipitation they received. In this now widely accepted system, extremely arid lands hav...
16: ...250 millimeters of precipitation per year, but is not generally recognized as a desert region.
20: ...cipitation, and what does fall remains frozen as snow pack; these are more commonly referred to as [[t...
22: Most non-polar deserts are hot because they have little [...
24: ...r polar deserts. Former desert areas presently in nonarid environments are paleodeserts, and extraterr... - India (27950 bytes)
1: ...blic of China]], [[Nepal]], and [[Bhutan]] on the north, and [[Bangladesh]] and [[Myanmar]] on the eas...
3: ...es the country has grown significantly, in its economic and military roles, regionally as well as glob...
11: ...t known traces of human life in India. The first known permanent settlements appeared 9,000 years ago ...
13: ...ollowed, with the successive establishment in the northern Indian subcontinent of the [[Indo-Greek]], ...
15: ...nce|astronomy]], [[Ancient Indian science and technology|engineering]], [[Religion in India|religion]]... - Monsoon (5846 bytes)
5: ...outhwest during one half of the year and from the northeast during the other.
12: ...ean and land is less than in summer, this wind is not as constant.
18: ...as been broadened to include almost all of the phenomena associated with the annual [[weather]] cycle ...
20: Even more broadly, in the geological past, it is now understood, monsoon systems must have always acc...
22: === North American Monsoon === - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...unications technologies, the use of Morse code is now largely obsolete, although it is still employed ...
13: ...wn as Railroad or [[American Morse code]], and is now very rarely used.
17: ...e receiving end of the transmission wire. The technological limits of the time made it impossible to p...
21: ...g and end of dots and dashes, meaning that it was no longer necessary to use the tape.
23: ... dash as "dah", and a dot as "dit". When a dit is not the final element of a character, its sound is s... - Mustard (7834 bytes)
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: ...{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
16: ...er liquids, are turned into a [[condiment]] also known as '''mustard'''. The seeds are also pressed to...
22: ...juncea''), originally from the foothills of the [[Himalaya]], is grown commercially in the [[U.K.]], [[Canad...
32: ...im a single mustard seed taken from a house where no person had died. [[Jesus]]'s parable of the musta... - Glacier (6999 bytes)
3: ...ir of total water. The [[Siachen glacier]] in the Himalaya is the largest alpine glacier in the world. Glaci...
11: ...er, the melted ice from the glacier alone may be enough to create a stream and while the glacier may b...
13: The place where the glacier thins to nothing is called the [[ice front]].
17: ... of deposition cancel. Erosive lateral forces are not canceled; therefore, glaciers turn v-shaped rive...
19: ...like ridges formed by streambeds under glaciers, known as [[esker]]s. Glacial meltwaters contain [[roc... - Siachen glacier (3348 bytes)
1: ...above sea level. The Siachen glacier is the great Himalayan [[watershed]] that demarcates central Asia from ...
3: ... place of roses', a reference to the abundance of Himalayan [[wildflower]]s found in the valleys below the g...
5: ...vive north of NJ9842. Prior to 1984 neither India nor Pakistan had any permanent presence in the area
9: ...annot get up to the glacier, while the Indians cannot come down. Presently India holds two-thirds of g...
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