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Rivers:
Amur
Xi - also known as the Pearl
Huang - also known as the Yellow
Chang - also known as the Yangtze
Wei
Red known as the Yuan in China and the Song Hong in Vietnam
Brahmaputra
Salween
Mekong
Locate the cities listed below AND the capitals of East Asian countries on the map of East Asia.
Cities in the PRC:
Tianjin
Qingdao
Xian
Guangzhou (Canton)
Harbin
Chongqing
Shenyang
Wuhan
Hangzhou
Chengdu
Shanghai
Ningbo
Shenzhen
Lhasa
Kashi (Kashgar)
Nanjing
In South Korea:
Pusan (Busan)
Part II - Japan (Tokyo)
Place the following material on the map of Japan.
Once again, the four main islands:
Honshu
Hokkaido
Shikoku
Kyushu
Other islands:
Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-Shoto)
Okinawa
Body of water:
Inland Sea (Seto-Naikai)
Etc.: Mt. Fuji (Fuji-san)
Locate all cities and regions listed below:
Kanto Plain - Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama (name and circle the cities and label the Kanto
Plain)
Kansai District - Nara, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe (ditto)
Nobi Plain Nagoya (ditto)
Hiroshima
Sapporo
Fukuoka
Part IIIA - Place the following material on the cartogram of Southeast Asia
There are 12 countries in Southeast Asia. They are numbered 1 through 12 on the Southeast Asia
cartogram. Locate countries and capitals on the cartogram:
1.
Burma - also known as Myanmar (Naypydaw)
2.
Thailand (Bangkok)
3.
Laos (Vientiane)
4.
Cambodia - sometimes known as Kampuchea (Phnom Penh)
5.
Vietnam (Hanoi)
6.
Philippines (Manila)
7.
Malaysia (two capitals: Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya)
8.
Singapore (Singapore)
9.
Indonesia (Jakarta)
10.
Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan)
11.
Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby)
12.
East Timor (Dili)
Take extra care to map out place-names in bold. Students have missed these and have lost points.
Also map out those place-names not in bold.
Malaysia has three components:
Malaya
Sarawak
Sabah
Islands:
In Indonesia:
Sumatra
Java
Celebes
Bali
Timor
Note: the eastern half of Timor is known as East Timor and once was a Portuguese colony that was
seized by Indonesia. East Timor is now independent.
Borneo is divided as follows:
a. Brunei
b. Malaysia - Sarawak and Sabah
c. Indonesia - Kalimantan
New Guinea (divided between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)
The portion of New Guinea in Indonesia is called Irian Jaya.
In Philippines:
1. Luzon
2. Mindanao
In Malaysia: Pinang (Penang)
Also locate the Spratly Islands - claimed by China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam
Bodies of water:
Indian Ocean
Bay of Bengal
Gulf of Thailand
South China Sea
Gulf of Tonkin
Strait of Malacca
Sunda Strait (Selat Sunda)
EAST ASIA
INDOCHINA