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Land and Climate in the World

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Central

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Southeast Asia

Siberia

Central Asia Mongolia

China Tibet Pacific Ocean India

Southeast Asia

Average January Temps Austin, TX=50

Average July Temps

Austin, TX=84

Mean Annual Precipitation in China

Austin, Texas 100mm=3.94in 800mm (31in)

Agriculture Temperate zone

North China Plain

Pastoral Nomadism Steppe

Inner Mongolia

Population density

Great Wall

Great Wall

Regions of China

Manchuria Mongolia (E. Turkestan)

Tibetan Plateau China Proper

Taiwan

Regions of China

Manchuria Xinjiang Mongolia (E. Turkestan)

Tibetan Plateau China Proper

Taiwan

Changing sphere of Chinese civilization

Regions of China

Manchuria Xinjiang Mongolia (E. Turkestan)

Tibetan Plateau China Proper

Taiwan

China Proper China Proper

< 20 in. annual rainfall

North China

Qinling Mts South China

> 20 in, annual rainfall

Southwest Plateau

(West r.) Qinling Mts. Huai R.

Cultivated fields in Loess Plateau of N. China Province

Rice fields in S. China

Rice terraces S. China

China Proper

Yellow R.

Mountains Yangzi R.

Southwest Plateau

(West r.) West (Xi) R. aka Pearl R.

Upper , Province

Hukou waterfalls on Yellow River Shaanxi Province

Middle Yellow River

loess plateau

China Proper

loess plateau (middle Yellow R. valley)

China Proper

N. China Plain (lower Yellow R. valley)

North China Plain (Lower Yellow R.)

Yellow Province

Changes in the course of the Yellow River

Shandong Peninsula

Yellow Sea

China Proper

Yangzi River River Changjiang

Sichuan Basin Lake Dongting Lake Poyang

Upper Yangzi River, Tibet

Sichuan Basin Lake Dongting Lake Poyang

Min River Valley Sichuan Province

Sichuan Province

Three Gorges area of Yangzi River Sichuan Province

Sichuan Basin Lake Dongting Lake Poyang

Middle Yangzi R. valley

Middle Yangzi River Wuhan,

Satellite image of Yangzi Delta

China Proper

Nanling Mts.

Lingnan: area south Nanling Mts. of the Nanling Mts.

West River aka

Pearl River Delta Province

Guangzhou (Canton)

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Island

China Proper

Southwest Plateau

Southwestern "Plateau"

Guilin Autonomous

China Proper

Wuyi Mountains Province

Dongshan Island Fujian Province

China Proper

Regions of China

Manchuria Xinjiang Mongolia (E. Turkestan)

Tibetan Plateau China Proper

Taiwan

Qiang villagers Sichuan Povince

Traditional clothing of the Yi people Sichuan Province

Manchuria (Northeastern China)

Mongolian Steppe

Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Northern Steppe Mongolia

Mongolian Yurts

Eurasian Steppe

Regions of China

Manchuria Xinjiang Mongolia (E. Turkestan)

Tibetan Plateau China Proper

Taiwan

Xinjiang E. Turkestan

Tianshan Mountains

Junggar (Zunghaer) Basin Xinjiang Autonomous Region

Ili River Valley, Junggar Basin Xinjiang Autonomous Region

Kazakh herder in Junggar basin Xinjiang

Xinjiang E. Turkestan

Tianshan Mountains

Kashgar, Xinjiang Autonomous Region

Taklimakan Desert Xinjiang Autonomous Region

Uighur man Xinjiang

Satellite image of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Mount Everest in the Himalaya Mountains Tibet

Tibet

Tibetan woman with yak

Island of Taiwan