0° Equator

20°N

20°S

80°E 100°E 120°E

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer

Ganges

R.Bra

hmaputra R

.

Ganges Delta

Indu

s R.

Narmada R

.

Godavari R.Krishna R.

Mekong

R.

Salw

een

R.

Irrawaddy

R.

Red R.Mt. Everest29,035 ft.(8,850 m)

K228,250 ft.(8,611 m)

DECCAN

PLATEAU

Chota NagpurPlateau

NORTHERN PLAINSRann ofKutch

Thar

Dese

rt

EA

ST

ER

N

GH

A TSW

ES

TE

RN

GH

AT

SH

IMALAYA MTS.

HINDU K

USH KarakoramRange

Sula

iman

Rang

e

Vindhya Ran

ge

Khyber Pass

ArabianSea

Gulf ofKhambhat

Bay ofBengal

INDIAN OCEANL

accadive

Sea

Andam

anSea

Gulf ofMannar

Palk Strait

PhilippineSea

Malay

Peninsula

Indochina

Phil ippineIsla

nd

sM

ol u

c c a s

Lakshadweep Is.(Ind.)

AndamanIs. (Ind.)

NicobarIs. (Ind.)

Bo

rn

eo

Timor

Luzon

Mindanao

NewGuinea

Sulawesi

Sumatra

Java

Gulf ofTonkin

Java Sea

SuluSea

CelebesSea

Banda SeaFlores Sea

Gulf ofThailand

Arafura Sea

Luzo

n Stra

it

S ou

t hC

hi n

aS

ea

Strait of Malacca

PACIFICOCEAN

INDIA

PAKISTAN

BANGLADESH

BHUTAN

AFGHANISTAN

NEPAL

SRI LANKA

MALDIVES

MYANMAR

LAOS

THAILAND

CAMBODIA

VIETNAM

INDIA

M A L A Y S I A

SINGAPORE

PHILIPPINES

BRUNEI

I N D O N E S I A

N

Elevation

Mountain peak

(4,000 m)(2,000 m)(1,000 m)

(200 m)(0 m)

Below sea level

13,100 ft.6,600 ft.3,275 ft.

650 ft.0 ft.

0

0 500 1,000 kilometers

500 1,000 miles

Southern Asia: Physical

Physica l Geography

572 UNIT 7

0° Equator

20°N

80°E 100°E

160°E

18

Tropic of Cancer

ArabianSea

Bay ofBengal

Sout

hC

hina

Sea

PACIFICOCEAN

INDIAN OCEAN

Inches of Precipitation per Year

0–4

5–8

9–15

16–24

25–39

40–55

56–63

64–78

79–110

111–157

158–220

221–315

316–393

394–472

0

0 500 1,000 kilometers

500 1,000 miles

N

United States

Southern AsiaSouthern Asia

Southern Asia1,878,880,000

Continental United States

United States281,421,906

3,685,718 square miles

3,165,630 square miles

= 50,000,000

Atlas 573

MOST RAIN IN ONE MONTH:Meghalaya, India, July 1861, 366 in.

WORLD’S LARGEST RIVER DELTA:Ganges delta, Bangladesh

WORLD’S LARGEST ARCHIPELAGO:Indonesia, 3,231 mi., 17,000 islands

HUGE TSUNAMI:Java and Sumatra, 1883, 120-ft.-highwave

GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER: InterpretingMaps and Visuals1. Location • What mountain range lies in the north

of India?2. Place • Which two rivers form the Ganges delta?

Precipitation in Southern Asia

Southern Asia–United States Landmass and Population

New Guinea

Quezon City

Ho ChiMinh City

Davao

Medan

Palembang

Surabaya

SemarangBandung

Islamabad

LahoreRawalpindi

Kabul

Faisalabad

KathmanduNew Delhi

Kolkata(Calcutta) Chittagong

Bangalore

Mumbai(Bombay)

Thimphu

Kanpur

Lucknow

Varanasi

Delhi

Jaipur

HyderabadKarachi

Ahmadabad

Surat

Hyderabad

Nagpur

Pune

Chennai(Madras)

Vijayawada

Dhaka

Male

Colombo

Vientiane

Singapore

Bandar SeriBegawan

Jakarta

Manila

PhnomPenh

KualaLumpur

Yangon

Bangkok

Hanoi

0° Equator

20°N

20°S

80°E 100°E 120°E

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer

Ganges R.

Brahmaputr

a R.

Indu

s R.

Narmada R.

Godavari R.Krishna R.

Mekong

R.

Salw

een

R.

Irrawaddy

R.

Red R.ArabianSea

PhilippineSea

Gulf ofKhambhat

Bay ofBengal

INDIAN OCEANL

accadive

Sea

Andam

anSea

Gulf ofMannar

Palk StraitLakshadweep Is.(Ind.)

AndamanIs. (Ind.)

NicobarIs. (Ind.)

Bo

rn

eo

Timor

Luzon

Mindanao

Sulawesi

Sumatra

Java

Gulf ofTonkin

Java Sea

SuluSea

CelebesSea

Banda SeaFlores Sea

Gulf ofThailand

Arafura Sea

Timor Sea

Luzo

n Stra

it

S ou

t hC

hi n

aS

ea

Strait of Malacca

PACIFICOCEAN

INDIA

PAKISTAN

BANGLADESH

BHUTAN

AFGHANISTAN

NEPAL

SRI LANKA

MALDIVES

MYANMAR

LAOS

THAILAND

CAMBODIAVIETNAM

INDIA

M A L A Y S I ASINGAPORE

PHILIPPINES

BRUNEI

EASTTIMOR

I N D O N E S I A

N

National capital

Other city

0

0 500 1,000 kilometers

500 1,000 miles

Southern Asia: Political

Human Geography

574 UNIT 7

160°E 180°

100°E80°E60°E

°

Tropic of Cancer

Equator

PACIFIC OCEAN

0

0 500 1,000 kilometers

500 1,000 miles

N

Confucianism

Christianity

Buddhism

Sunni Islam

Traditional

Sikhism

Hinduism

160°E 180°

100°E80°E60°E

°

Tropic of Cancer

Equator

PACIFIC OCEAN

0

0 500 1,000 kilometers

500 1,000 miles

Personsper

sq. mi.

Personspersq. km

Over 520260–520130–259

25–1291–24

0

Over 200100–20050–9910–491–90

N

Atlas 575

WORLD’S SECOND LARGESTCOUNTRY POPULATION:India, 1,002,142,000 (2000)

WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING:Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,1,483 ft.

WORLD’S LARGEST PRODUCER OF TEA:Assam, India, 1,700,000 lbs. per yr.

SINKING CITY:Bangkok, Thailand, sinking at about 3 in. per yr.

GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER: InterpretingMaps and Visuals1. Region • What country has the largest Hindu

population?2. Place • Which country shares borders with India

and Afghanistan?

Religions of Southern Asia

Population Density of Southern Asia

Birthrate (per 1,000 pop.)

(2000)

CountryFlag

Country/Capital Currency Population (2001)

(estimate)

LifeExpectancy(years) (2000)

AfghanistanKabul

BangladeshDhaka

26,813,000

131,270,000

BhutanThimphu

BruneiBandar Seri

Begawan

CambodiaPhnom Penh

IndiaNew Delhi

IndonesiaJakarta

LaosVientiane

MalaysiaKuala Lumpur

MaldivesMale

MyanmarYangon

PakistanIslamabad

PhilippinesManila

SingaporeSingapore

2,049,000

344,000

12,492,000

1,029,991,000

228,438,000

5,636,000

22,229,000

311,000

41,995,000

25,284,000

144,617,000

82,842,000

4,300,000

46

59

66

71

56

61

64

51

73

71

54

57

58

67

78

43

27

40

25

38

27

24

41

25

35

30

36

39

29

13

Afghani

Taka

Ngultrum

Dollar

Riel

East Timor*Dili 737,000 50 25Dollar

Rupee

Rupiah

Kip

Ringgit

Rufiyaa

Kyat

Rupee

Rupee

Peso

Dollar

NepalKathmandu

576 UNIT 7*East Timor became an independent country on May 20, 2002.

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DATA UPDATE

Data F i le

http://www.classzone.com/books/wc_survey/

Infant Mortality (per 1,000 live births)

(2000)

Doctors(per 100,000 pop.)

(1992–1999)

Literacy Rate(percentage)(1996–1999)

Map (not to scale)

Passenger Cars(per 1,000 pop.)

(1996–1999)

Total Area (square miles)

149.8

82.2

70.7

24.0

80.8

72.0

45.7

104.0

7.9

27.0

82.5

78.5

91.0

35.3

3.2

11

20

16

85

30

48

16

24

66

40

30

4

57

123

163

32

40

42(1995)

88

65(1993)

56

84

57

84

96

83

39

44

95

91

2

1

1

441

1.2

4

12

1.7

143

3

0.7

N/A

8

9

95

250,775

55,126

16,000

2,226

69,898

1,195,063

779,675

91,428

128,727

115

261,789

54,362

310,403

115,651

225

Atlas 577

120.9 N.A. 48 23 5,641

Birthrate (per 1,000 pop.)

(2000)

CountryFlag

Country/Capital Currency Population (2000 estimate)

LifeExpectancy

(years) (2000)

Sri LankaColombo

ThailandBangkok

19,409,000

61,798,000

VietnamHanoi 79,939,000

72

73

66

18

16

20

Rupee

Baht

Dong

578 UNIT 7

Mohandas Gandhi �

The Shwezigon Pagoda, a Buddhist temple in Myanmar �

The Ganges River Valley �

United StatesWashington, D.C. 281,422,000 77 15Dollar

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Data F i le

http://www.classzone.com/books/wc_survey/

Infant Mortality (per 1,000 live births)

(2000)

Doctors(per 100,000 pop.)

(1992–1998)

Literacy Rate(percentage)(1996–1999)

Map (not to scale)

Passenger Cars(per 1,000 pop.)

(1996–1999)

Total Area (square miles)

17.3

22.4

36.7

37

24

48

91

94

94

12

25

1

25,332

198,455

130,468

Atlas 579

GEOGRAPHY SKILLBUILDER: Interpreting a Chart1. Place • How much lower is Singapore’s birthrate than India’s?2. Region • How much higher is the literacy rate in the Philippines than

in Laos?Dancer in Rasa Lila drama in India �

Central Highlands in Sri Lanka �

Boys in Indonesia studying the Qur’an �

7.0 251 97 489 3,787,319

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