C.J. Cox

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World Regional Geography
East Asia

• C.J. Cox
• Instructor

Week 8
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East Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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East Asia
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Ten Geographic Qualities

• 1. Eastern Flank of Eurasia
• 2. Over 1/5 of the worlds population lives in
  this region

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Ten Geographic Qualities

• 3. One of the worlds oldest continuous
  civilizations
• 4. Foreign intervention of European colonialism,
  Japanese imperialism Russian expansionism
• 5. Communist revolution after WWII

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Ten Geographic Qualities

• 6. Dominantly rural society with very large urban
  cities and quickly developing industrialization
• 7. Region of enduring traditions - values,
  religions
• 8. Economic powerhouse of the 21st century

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Ten Geographic Qualities

• 9. A region about the size of the US with 5 times
  the population
• 10. Internally oriented Asian cultural values
  

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Relative Location of East Asia

• Centrally located between South Asia, and the
  Pacific Ocean
• North of South East Asia and south of Russia

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East Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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Physical Geography of East Asia

• Plate Tectonics
• Plateaus
• Deserts
• Mountains
• Rivers
• Lakes
• Climates

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Physical Geography

• Plate Tectonics
• Clashing or colliding plates of Eurasian and
  Philippine Plates and Pacific Plates
• Volcanic archipelago caused by subduction of
  plates.

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Himalyas Tibetan Plateau
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Physical Geography
Deserts Gobi Desert
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Physical Geography of East Asia

• Rivers
• Yangstze River
• Huong Ho (Yellow)
• Xi Juang River
• Landforms
• Sichuan (Red) Basin
• Tibetan Plateau
• Himalayan Mts.
• Kunlun Mts.

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Irrigated Farmland
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Physical Geography of East Asia

• Climates
• Desert Climates dominate interior
• Coastal is a Humid subtropical climate (C)
• wet all year
• averages above freezing
• Northern China and the Tibetan Plateau are
  dominated by the D climates

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Climates of East Asia
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Vegetation Map
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East Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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Cultural Geography of East Asia

• INTERESTING FACTS
• More people speak Mandarin Chinese than any other
  language (native speakers)
• One in every five people in the world today is
  Chinese
• The Japanese have a larger GNP per capita than
  the US

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Cultural Geography of East Asia

• Population
• Languages
• Religion
• Agriculture
• Economics
• Historical Geography

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Population Concentrations
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Cultural Geography of East Asia

• Population
• 1.4 billion
• concentrations on coasts rivers
• one child policy in China lowers growth rate -
  but numbers remain large
• Japan is at zero population growth

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East Asia

• Population Characteristics
• Birth rates 16/1000
• Death rates 7/1000
• Natural Increase .9
• Infant Mortality 29/1000
• Doubling Time 74yrs
• Pop lt15 25
• Pop gt 65 7

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Cultural Geography of East Asia

• Languages
• Sino-Tibetan Language Family
• Chinese
• Tibeto-Burmese
• Altaic Language Family
• Japanese
• Korean
• Mongolian

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Religions
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Religions
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Cultural Geography of East Asia

• Religion
• Buddhism dominates East Asia
• Minor religions
• shintoism in Japan
• confusionism
• Taoism
• Religious landscapes

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Cultural Geography of South Asia

• Religion
• Religious landscapes

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Cultural Geography of East Asia

• Agriculture
• subsistence farming
• intensive rice farming
• Wheat is the dominant grain in Northern China
• Government owned communes vs. private enterprises
• Japanese subsidization of rice farmers

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Agriculture in East Asia
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Rice Paddies in China
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Washing drying vegetable along the
river Southern China
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Cultural Geography of East Asia

• Economy
• primary industry
• resource rich
• trade
• large labor
  population

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China
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Income levels
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Historical Geography

• Chinese Empires
• Colonial Colonization Trade
• Japanese Empire of the 20th Century
• Emmergence of Communist China
• Japanese Economic Imperialism
• China Japan as world powers
• The East Asian Economic Powerhouse

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East Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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Political Geography of East Asia
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East Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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World Regional Geography
East Asia

• C.J. Cox
• Instructor

Week 7
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