East Asia
Population density of E Asia
Landforms and Resources
• Mountains
– Kunlun
– Tian Shan
– Altai
How did mountains shape culture?
• Plateaus
– Tibetan
– Mongolian
• Plains
– North China Plain
– Manchurian Plain
• Deserts
– Gobi
– Taklimakan
How do mountains and deserts
affect population distribution?
Peninsulas and Islands
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Shandong
Leizhou
Macao
Korean
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Hainan
Hong Kong
Japan
Taiwan
River Systems
• Huang He
– Yellow River
• Chang Jiang
– Yangtze River
• Xi Jiang
– West River
Why do the rivers mostly
flow from west to east?
How many of the major cities in
China are on rivers?
Resources
Unevenly distributed
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Land
Forests
Minerals
Energy
Water
• List 3 ways China’s rivers contributed to its
development.
• Where is most of the agricultural land in
China?
• How are rivers important to China’s
economy?
Climate and Vegetation
• High Latitude
– Subarctic
– Highland
• Mid-latitude
– Humid continental
– Humid subtropical
• Dry
– Semiarid
– Desert
• Tropical
– wet
In what climate zone do most people live?
Three Gorges Dam
Positive vs. Negative
• Control floods
• Generate electricity
• Facilitate shipping
upriver
• Human cost
– relocation
– lost historical sites
– Threat of landslides
• Financial burdens
• Environmental
concerns
– Reduce habitat
– Siltation of lake
– Pollution from factories
Urban Japan
• Very crowded
• 60% of people on 3% of land
Adaptations
Small houses, mainly apartments
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• Limited furniture
• Create new land using ‘landfill’
Grand Canal
– From north to south, the Grand Canal is over
1,700 kilometers (roughly 1,100 miles) long,
linking Hangzhou in Zhejiang province with
Beijing in the north. An extremely important
water project that was first started in the Sui
dynasty (589-618), it connects several big
rivers and provides an important means of
transportation and communication.
Why would the canal be needed in
China? Why aren’t the rivers enough?
With the two pictures below in mind, how do you think the access
to rivers and lakes would have made the lifestyle of people in the
south different from that of people in the north?