Geography Flashcards
Define the Balkans
Seas
Landmarks
Countries
The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch from the Serbian-Bulgarian border to the Black Sea.
Entirely in the Balkans: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro.
Mostly within the Balkans: Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
Define the Caucuses
Seas
Landmarks
Countries
A region located at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains.
Includes Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and some of Russia.
Define Anatolia
Seas
Countries
The westernmost protrusion of Asia, which makes up the majority of modern-day Turkey. The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.
Curaçao
Pronunciation
Cure a sow (like sour)
The Yellow River
Names
Nearest major city
History
Other historical names
or Huang He (“Wung ‘CHI”), is the third longest river in Asia, after the Y River and Y River, and the sixth longest river system in the world.
Flows near, around and behind Beijing
AKA China’s Sorrow and
Scourge of the Han People.
Its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. However, because of frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields, it also is called China’s Sorrow and Scourge of the Han People.
The Yangtze
Where
City
is 6380 km long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.
Its river basin in central China is home to nearly one-third of the country’s population.
Flows from Tibet through Shanghai.
The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country.
The Yenisei
Where
(also Romanized Yenisey, Enisei, Jenisej)
The largest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean.
Third longest river in ASIA, it rises in Mongolia and is the central of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean (the other two being the Ob and the Lena).
Northernmost Chinese River
Names
Nearest major city
History
Other historical names
The Yellow River or Huang He (“Wung ‘CHI”)
The third longest river in Asia, after the Y River and Y River, and the sixth longest river system in the world.
Flows near, around and behind Beijing
AKA China’s Sorrow and
Scourge of the Han People.
Its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. However, because of frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields it also is called China’s Sorrow and Scourge of the Han People.
Longest River in Asia
Where
City
The Yangtze is 6380 km long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. Its river basin is home to nearly one-third of the country’s population.
Flows through Shanghai.
Central southern Chinese River
Name
City
Significance
The Yangtze is 6380 km long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. Its river basin is home to nearly one-third of the country’s population.
Flows through Shanghai.
Central southern Chinese River
Name
City
Significance
The Yangtze is 6380 km long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. Its river basin is home to nearly one-third of the country’s population.
Flows through Shanghai.
Canton
Name Pronunciations
Location, River
Population
History (2-3 points)
Nickname
Guangzhou, (Gwong-‘JOE⬆️) was traditionally romanised as Canton,
Located on the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau.
Capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong, POP: 20M-44M. at the heart of the most-populous built-up metropolitan area in mainland China, an area that extends into the neighboring cities of Foshan, Dongguan, and Shenzhen.
Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road and continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub today. Long the only Chinese port accessible to foreign traders, the city fell to the British during the First Opium War. No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong (which is close by) and Shanghai,
“Capital of the Third World “ rapidly increasing population of foreign entrepreneurs, residents and immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and especially from Africa.
the Pearl River
Cities
Why named
China’s third-longest river, 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), after the Y River and the Y River.
The Pearl River is so named because of the pearl-colored shells that lie at the bottom of the river in the section that flows through the city of Guangzhou (Gwong-‘JOE⬆️).
Pearl River Cities
Guangzhou (Gwong-‘JOE⬆️) (Canton)
Hong Kong
Macau
CENTRAL ASIA
Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also colloquially referred to as “the stans” as the countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix “-stan”, meaning “land of”.[1] Central Asia is sometimes referred to as Turkestan.
