Download Asia – Countries and Capitals

Asia – Countries and Capitals
Directions: Use pages 86-87 in the World Atlas or pages A34-A35 and in the World Geography textbook to
complete your political map of Asia. First, take a pen or marker and go over the borders of each country so that
you can tell the borders apart from the rivers. You can go over the borders in color, if you want. Label all of the
countries and capitals listed below on your map and check the box on this sheet when you have marked it on your
map. Color in each country so that a viewer can easily tell them apart. Make sure to mark the capital with a dot
or a star and put it as close as you can to where it actually is.
South Asia
East and North Asia
Country - Capital
Country - Capital
qBangladesh - Dhaka
qChina - Beijing
qBhutan - Thimphu
qJapan - Tokyo
qBrunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
qMongolia - Ulaanbaatar
qCambodia - Phnom Penh
qNorth Korea - Pyongyang
qEast Timor - Dili
qSouth Korea - Seoul
qIndia - New Delhi
qTaiwan - Taipai
qIndonesia - Jakarta
qRussia - Moscow
qLaos - Vientiane
qMalaysia - Kuala Lampur
Central Asia
qMaldives - Male
Country - Capital
qMyanmar - Yangon
qAzerbaijan - Baku
qNepal -Kathmandu
qGeorgia - Tbilisi
qPakistan - Islamabad
qKazakhstan - Astana
qPhilippines - Manila
qKyrgyzstan - Bishkek
qSingapore - Singapore
qTajikistan - Dushanbe
qSri Lanka - Colombo
qTurkmenistan - Ashgabat
qThailand - Bangkok
qUzbekistan - Tashkent
qVietnam - Hanoi
Asia – Physical Features
Directions: Use pages 84-85 in the World Atlas or pages A34-A35 and in the World Geography textbook to
complete your physical map of Asia. Label each physical feature and use latitude and longitude to help you place
each feature correctly.
South Asia
qHimalayas - a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. This
massive mountain system also includes the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, the Toba Kakar, and several minor
ranges extending from the Pamir Knot.
qTibetan Plateau - a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous
Region and Qinghai Province in the People's Republic of China and Ladakh in Kashmir. The plateau is surrounded by several mountain ranges: the Himalayas, the Kunlun range, and the Qilian range.
qTaklimakan Desert - a desert in Central Asia, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Region of the People's Republic
of China. It is bounded by Kunlun Mountains to the south, and Pamir Mountains and Tian Shan to the west and
north.
qTien Shan - a mountain range located in Central Asia that lies north of the Taklimakan Desert.
qGanges River - a major river in the Indian subcontinent flowing east through the Ganges Plain of northern India into Bangladesh. India's Hindus, worship the river, believing it is a personified form of the goddess
Ganga.
qGanges Plain - a large and fertile plain covering most of northern and eastern India, the most populous
parts of Pakistan, and virtually all of Bangladesh.
qIndus River - the longest and most important river and often considered the life-line of Pakistan. It is the
longest river and the third largest river, in terms of annual flow, in the Indian subcontinent.
qIndochina Peninsula - a region in Southeast Asia that lies roughly east of India, south of China. It
includes the modern countries of Myanmar, Malaysia, Loas, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
qSouth China Sea - a small sea south of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area
from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan.
qMalay Peninsula - a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia on which the countries of Thailand and
Malaysia are located.
qBorneo - the third largest island in the world, located at the southern end of the South China Sea.
qSumatra - the sixth largest island in the world and it is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger
islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are partially in Indonesia).
qBay of Bengal - a bay that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It is bordered by India and
Sri Lanka to the West, Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal to the North (where the name comes
from), and Myanmar, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the East.
qArabian Sea - a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and
Iran, and on the west by Arabian Peninsula.
qCaspian Sea - the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area. It lies between the southern areas of
the Russian Federation and northern Iran.
qKorean Peninsula - a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan (East Sea) on the east, the East China Sea
to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west.
qYellow Sea - the northern part of the East China Sea, which is part of the Pacific Ocean. It is located
between mainland China and the Korean peninsula.
qYellow River - the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and the sixth-longest in the
world at 3,398 miles. It empties into the Yellow Sea.
qYangtze River - the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world. It empties into the East
China Sea.
qEast China Sea - a sea east of China that is a part of the Pacific Ocean.
qSea of Japan - a sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, Korea and Russia.
qPhilippine Sea - a sea east of Philippines. It is a part of the western Pacific Ocean including an area
from Palau to Japan.
qGobi Desert - the largest desert region in Asia. It covers area in China and southern Mongolia.
Northern Europe & Northern Asia
qLake Baikal - the deepest lake in the world. It is located in Southern Siberia in Russia and is sometimes
known as the “Blue Eye of Siberia.”
qWest Siberian Plain - a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia and Russia, between
the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River in the east, and by the Eastern Sayan Mountains and the
Baikal Mountains on the south.
qEast Siberian Uplands - an area of elevated land in eastern Siberia, Russia.
qKamchatka Peninsula - a long peninsula in the Russian Far East that lies between the Pacific Ocean
to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west.
qArctic Ocean - the smallest of the world's five major oceanic divisions and the shallowest. It lies in the
northern hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic Polar region of the north.
qSea of Okhotsk - a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the
east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the
west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.
qKazakh Uplands - a large flat area extending throughout the central and eastern regions of Kazakhstan