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The Khyber Pass, the Great Wall of China and The Strait of Malacca are just some of the features and landmarks you can learn about in this section.
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Makassar Strait, a channel between the islands of Borneo and Celebes. It links the Celebes Sea on the north with the Java and Flores seas on the south. See more »
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Annam
Annam, a historic region on the eastern coast of Indochina, now central Vietnam. In the fourth century B.C., the ancestors of the Vietnamese were driven from southern China to the upper Indochinese Peninsula.
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Bosporus, a strait in Turkey. Together with the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles strait it links the Black Sea with the Mediterranean Sea and separates European and Asian Turkey.
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Central Asia, an indefinite region in the interior of Asia. It is generally considered to extend in a broad band from the Caspian Sea into the Xinjiang region of China, covering roughly the same area as Turkestan.
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Dardanelles, a strait in Turkey forming part of the waterway between the Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea) and the Black Sea.
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Eniwetok, Republic of the Marshall Islands, a coral atoll in the Ralik Chain in the west-central Pacific.
See more »Far East
Far East, a term for an indefinite area of eastern Asia. Although it has long been used in reference to the eastern part of Asia, the term has no precise definition as to the lands it includes or excludes.
See more »Geography of Panmunjom
, a village in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. It is about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Seoul.
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Indochina, or Indochinese Peninsula, the southeast peninsula of Asia. Politically it includes Vietnam (the former states of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China), Laos, Cambodia, Thailand (formerly known as Siam), Malaya (part of Malaysia), Singapore, and Burma.
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Lydia, a kingdom of ancient Asia Minor. Lydia, in what is now western Turkey, was bordered on the north by Mysia, on the east by Phrygia, on the south by Caria, and on the west by Ionia.
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Macau (English: Macao), a Special Administrative Region of China on the south China coast.
See more »Manila Bay
Manila Bay, an inlet of the South China Sea in the southwestern part of the island of Luzon, Philippine Islands.
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Melanesia a name given to the Pacific islands north and east of Australia, ranging from Waigeo to Fiji.
See more »Seikan Tunnel
Seikan Tunnel, an undersea railway tunnel between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
See more »Severnaya Zemlya
Severnaya Zemlya, an island group in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia. The name means “north land.” The group is located between the Kara and Laptev seas off the Siberian coast.
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Southeast Asia, a term widely applied to the peninsular and island part of Asia east of India and south of China.
See more »The Bay of Bengal
Bengal, Bay of, an arm of the Indian Ocean off the southern coast of Asia. It is separated from the Andaman Sea by the Andaman and Nicobar islands and is bordered by Sri Lanka (Ceylon), India, Bangladesh, and Burma.
See more »The Deccan Plateau
Deccan, a triangular tableland that covers most of peninsular India. Its northern limits are the Satpura Range and Chota Nagpur Plateau.
See more »The Dzungarian Basin
Dzungarian Basin,(Chinese: Junggar Pendi), or Dzungaria, an area in Xinjiang Uygur, an autonomous region in northwestern China.
See more »The Grand Canal
Grand Canal, a canal in eastern China. The world's longest, it winds northward about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Hangzhou to Tianjin, linking the Yangtze, Huang He, and other rivers.
See more »The Great Wall of China
Great Wall of China, a fortified barrier built along the northern borders of ancient China.
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