ASIA IMPORTANT LAND REGIONS EXERCISE

 

Manchurian plain	Formed by the Amur River and its tributaries in the northern part of China Important cities Anshan, Shenyang and fushunt of Mukden Triangle are located.
Great plain of china	Formed by the Hwang – Ho and Yangtze Kiang Rivers in the eastern china
Turanian plain	Formed by the two principal Asian rivers, the amuDarya and Syr Darya. It is an example of Basin plain which covers their region of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
West Siberian plain	It extends over 3, 200 km eastwards from the Urals to the Yenissei River and is one of the largest lowlands in the world.
Tsaidam Basin	Lies between Alton Shan and Kunlun Shan and to the north east of Central Tibetan Plateau. The major region of oil fields.
Szechuan basin	Situated to the north of yunan Plateau is the fertile basin where the Yangtze kiang river is joined by three major tributaries known as the Red Basin because of its coloured sandstone. Red basin of Szechuan is the leading rice producing region and is called the ‘Rice Bowl of china’.

THE DESERT LANDSCAPE OF SAUDI ARABIA

Rub – al- Khali	Largest continuous sand desert in the southern part of Saudi Arabia
Al Nafud Desert	Deserts land in the north eastern region of Saudi Arabia.

THE DESERT LANDSCAPE OF IRAN

Dash – I – Kavir	Largest Salt desert of the world situated in the northern Iran.
Dasht – I Lut	Barren desert of Iran situated in the eastern part of country.