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• Geography of China
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China From Above
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Geography of China
• Earliest Civilizations
• Developed over 4,000 years ago
• Centered around Huang River
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Geography of China
Major river valleys still heart of agricultural economy
• 1. Huang River2. Yangtze River3. Xi River
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Geography of China
• II. Geographic Isolation
• A. Landforms and location are isolating factors
• B. Mountains cover 1/3 of China
• 1. Himalayas on border -Tibet & Nepal2. Mt. Everest called “Qomolangma”
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Land Elevations
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Deserts of China
• Deserts in northwest
• Taklimakan Desert: raindrops evaporate before reaching the ground
• Sandstorms last for days
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Gobi Desert
• One of world’s largest deserts
• Extreme temperatures from a high
of 113° F in the Summer to a low of minus 104 ° F in the winter.
• Made up mostly of rock and gravel
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China’s Neighbors
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Coastal Area
Extend along coast of the South and East China Seas
Just above Sea Level
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Coastal Area
Coastal PlainsFertile land; Warm, wet climate90 % of China’s people live here
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China’s Rivers
• Huang River (Yellow River)
• Over 3,395 miles long.
• Flows from high western mountains to eastern lowlands.
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China’s Rivers
• Carries fertile silt, which combines with fine, wind blown dust from Gobi Desert.
• Has flooded more than 1500 times with much damage.
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Rivers of China
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Rivers of China
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Yangtze River
• 3,900 miles long • Flows from high
western mountains to eastern lowlands
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Yangtze River
• Nearly ½ of China’s people live in its basin.
• Also a rich agricultural region
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Yangtze River
• The Yangtze River stretches through nine provinces
• Serves as a drain for 695,000 square miles of land.
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Yangtze River
• Over the centuries the Yangtze has served as a transportation and commercial highway .
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Yangtze River
• Every year the Yangtze deposits massive amounts of silt.
• More than 6 billion cubic feet annually.
• That helps make the area a large plain used to grow rice.
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Xi River
• The Xi River is a river located in the southeast of China.
• The Xi River flows generally eastward
for 1,216 miles.
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Xi River
From the highlands
to the South China Sea.
Shorter than other important Chinese rivers
But its volume of flow is second only to that of the
the Yangtze River
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Amur River
• The Amur is the sixth-longest river in the world.
• Flowing 2,744 miles across the Far East regions of Russia
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Amur River
• For 1,000 miles, the river forms a natural boundary between Russia and China.
• It is the largest undammed river in the world.
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Amur River
It is the longest river of the Russian Far East.
• It ranks behind only the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers among China’s longest rivers.
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Brahmaputra River
• It rises on the northern slopes of the Himalaya in Tibet.
• Flowing 1,680 miles through India and Bangladesh
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• It joins the Ganges River, with which it shares the Ganges Delta.
• The river is an important source for irrigation and transportation.