Geographical Features of Asia

PLAIN AND DESSERT

NAME DESCRIPTION LOCATION IMAGE

Known as Zapadno-
West Siberian sibirskayaRavnina, is a large East of the Ural Mountains
plain that occupies the western mostly in the territory of
portion of Siberia, between the Russia.
Ural Mountains in the west and
the Yenisei River in the east,
and by the Altay Mountains on
the southeast.

The sand desert encompassing Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United

Rub’al Khali most of the southern third of Arab Emirates, and Yemen
the Arabian Peninsula. The
desert covers some 650,000 km² 

MAJOR LAKES IN ASIA MAJOR LAKES IN ASIA

 Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan,
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan
The Caspian Sea is the
CASPEAN SEA largest inland body of water
in Asia, as well as the
world. The lake encompasses
an area of 371,000 km2 and
has a salinity level that is
about one-third of seawater.

With an area of 31,500 km2,

LAKE BAIKAL Lake Baikal is the second
largest lake in Asia. it is Russia, Siberia
also the world’s biggest
freshwater lake in terms of
volume.

Lake Taymyr is the fourth

biggest lake in Asia, with an
LAKE TAYMYR area of 6,990 km2. The lake
has an irregular shape. The
lake remains ice-covered for Russia
several months in winter, but
many species of fish survive
in its cold Arctic waters,
such as muksun, sig, and
loach.

MAJOR MOUTAINS IN ASIA

 Earth's highest mountain
Mt. Everest above sea level, located in MahalangurHimal Eastern Nepal.
the MahalanguHimal sub-
range of the Himalayas in
Province No. 1 of eastern
Nepal.

Is the highest peak in

Borneo's Crocker Range and West Coast Division, Sabah,
Kinabalu is the highest mountain in Malaysia
the Malay Archipelago as
well as the highest
mountain in Malaysia.

Above sea level, is the China–Pakistan border between

K2 second highest mountain in Baltistan in the Gilgit-Baltistan
the world, after Mount region of northern Pakistan, and
Everest at 8,848 metres the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous
(29,029 ft. County of Xinjiang, China.

FRESH WATER
 Ihe longest river in Asia, the
Yangtze third-longest in the world and China
the longest in the world to
flow entirely within one
country.

Tigris-Euphrates Is the eastern of the two great

rivers that define Mesopotamia, Originating in eastern Turkey,
the other being the Euphrates. flow by Syria through Iraq into
The river flows south from the the Persian Gulf
mountains of south-eastern
Turkey through Iraq and empties
into the Persian Gulf.

Baikal An ancient, massive lake in the

mountainous Russian region of Siberia, Russia
Siberia, north of the Mongolian
border. Considered the deepest
lake in the world, it’s circled
by a network of hiking paths
called the Great Baikal Trail.

By: Erman Garalda