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2 days ago · Asia Pacific. Featured Content ‘We are not criminals’: Philippines considers making divorce legal. The staunchly Catholic Southeast Asian nation is the only place other than the Vatican where ...
4 days ago · Asia - Lakes, Rivers, Geography: The many lakes of Asia vary considerably in size and origin. The largest of them—the Caspian and Aral seas—are the remains of larger seas. The Caspian has been fluctuating in size, and the Aral has been shrinking, primarily because its tributaries, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, have been tapped heavily for irrigation purposes.
4 days ago · ASIA. War In Ukraine Africa Americas Asia Europe Middle East. Science. 51,000-year-old cave painting may be earliest scene depicted through art. The artwork, an example of early storytelling ...
4 days ago · Geography - note. note 1: strategic location in northeast Asia; composed of four main islands (the "Home Islands") - from north: Hokkaido, Honshu (the largest, most populous, and site of Tokyo, the capital), Shikoku, and Kyushu note 2: a 2023 Geospatial Information Authority of Japan survey technically detected 100,000 islands and islets, but only the 14,125 islands with a circumference of at ...
2 days ago · Asia - West Asia, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula: In West Asia naturally wild vegetation no longer occurs in clearly defined zones but is dispersed in small areas. The region is predominantly arid; desertlike depressions such as the Kyzylkum Desert of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan, and the Rubʿ al-Khali (Empty Quarter) of the Arabian Peninsula contrast with the ...
2 days ago · Asia - Climate, Monsoons, Rainfall: The enormous expanse of Asia and its abundance of mountain barriers and inland depressions have resulted in great differences between regions in solar radiation, atmospheric circulation, precipitation, and climate as a whole. A continental climate, associated with large landmasses and characterized by an extreme annual range of temperature, prevails over a ...
4 days ago · Asia - South Asia, Subcontinent, Culture: South Asia, in the limited sense of the term, consists of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, peninsular India, and Sri Lanka. The Indo-Gangetic Plain is formed from the combined alluvial plains of the Indus, Ganges (Ganga), and Brahmaputra rivers, which lie in a deep marginal depression running north of and parallel to the main range of the Himalayas. It is an ...
