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A is for Asia

Written and Illustrated By Eunice Rodriguez

Table of Contents

A is for Asia..............Page 4             T is for The Tien Shan Mountains............. 42

B is for Band-i-Amir.......... 6            U is for Ural Mountains............................. 44

C is for Continent............. 8             V is for Vindhya Mountains....................... 46

D is for Deccan Plateau..... 10          W is for Wakhan Corridor.......................... 48

E is for Euphrates River..... 12          X is for Xi River........................................ 50

F is for Fujiyama................ 14         Y is for Yemen........................................... 52

G is for Gobi Desert........... 16         Z is for Zeravshan River............................. 54

H is for Himalayas.............. 18          Index......................................................... 55

I is for Ishikari Mountains.... 20         Glossary.................................................... 56

J is for Jakarta..................... 22

K is for Koh-i-Baba Mountains.... 24

L is for Lake Baikal.............. 26

M is for Sea of Marmara...... 28

N is for Niigata Plain............ 30

O is for Ob River................ 32

P is for Plateau.................... 34

Q is for Quetta.................... 36

R is for The Registan Desert... 38

S is for Shanghai................. 40

Asia is the world's largest and most 

populous continent, located primarily in 

the eastern and northern hemispheres.

sia

and-i-Amir River

This beautiful river is 

named after a famous 

ruler from Afghanistan. 

Asia is the world's largest continent, 

located   in the eastern and northern 

hemispheres.

Ccontinent

The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau in 

India, making up most of the southern part 

of the country.

Ddeccan Plateau

The Euphrates is the longest and one of the 

most historically important rivers of 

Western Asia.

Eeuphrates River

Ffujiyami

Fujiyami is the 

highest mountain in 

Japan.

The Gobi desert, one of the world's 

great deserts, covers much of the 

southern part of Mongolia. 

obi Desert

The Gobi gets very        

cold    in    winter,        

and snow does fall.

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, is a mountain 

range in Asia separating the plains of the 

Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau 

in China.

himalaya

The Ishikari Mountains is a range 

of volcanic mountains in central 

Hokkaidō, Japan. The mountain 

range is made up from the 

Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group and 

the Tomuraushi Volcanic Group.

Iishikari Mountains

Jakarta, 

officially 

known as the 

Special Capital 

Region of 

Jakarta, is the 

capital and 

largest city of 

Indonesia.

Jjakarta

The mountain range is crowned by Foladi peak 

rising 4951 meters;16,244 ft. above sea level, 

and is located south of Bamyan, Afghanistan.

If you walk by the Koh-i-Baba Mountain and 

pick up a black stone you will be amazed of 

how heavy it is.

Kkoh-i-Baba

Lake Baikal is a rift lake in the south of the 

Russian region of Siberia, between the 

Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the 

Buryat Republic to the southeast.

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world 

reaching a depth of 1,620 meters!

Llake Baikal

The Sea of Marmara, an extension of the 

Mediterranean Sea, separates Asian Turkey 

from European Turkey and separates the two 

continents.

It contains two island groups; the Marmara in 

the southwest and the Princes' in the northeast.

Mmarmara Sea

Niigata Plain

Niigata Plain is located in 

Japan. It is also known as the 

"City of Water."

b River

Ob River, river of central 

Russia. One of the greatest 

rivers of Asia, the Ob flows 

north and west across 

western Siberia into the 

Kara Sea of the Arctic 

Ocean. 

Pplateau

The Tibetan Plateau is surrounded by massive mountain 

ranges. It is a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia and 

sometimes called "the Roof of the World" and is the 

world's highest and largest plateau, with an area of 

2,500,000 square kilometers (970,000 sq mi) (about four 

times the size of France!)

Quetta is known as the Fruit Garden of 

Pakistan, due to the many fruit orchards in 

and around it. It also has a diversified 

plant and animal wildlife. 

Quetta is at an average elevation of 1,680 

meters (5,510 feet) high, making it 

Pakistan's only high-altitude major city. 

Qquetta

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