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Southern & Eastern Asia Physical Features and Countries Matching Activity Cut out each card. Match the name to the image and description. Ganges Mekong Himalayan River River Mountains Huang He Yangtze Taklimakan (Yellow) River Desert River Indus Gobi Bay of River Desert Bengal Yellow Indian Sea of Sea Ocean Japan Korean South China India Peninsula Sea China Indonesia Vietnam North South Japan Korea Korea Southern & Eastern Asia Physical Features and Countries Matching Activity Southern & Eastern Asia Physical Features and Countries Matching Activity Southern & Eastern Asia Physical Features and Countries Matching Activity Asia’s largest desert that stretches across southern Mongolia and northern China Largest and longest river in China’s second largest river China; very important that causes devastating because it provides floods. It is named for the hydroelectric power, water for muddy yellow silt it carries. irrigation, and transportation for cargo ships. Flows through China, Starts in the Himalayan Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Mountains; most important river in Laos, Cambodia, and India because it runs through the Vietnam. One of the region’s most fertile and highly populated most important crops, rice, is areas; considered sacred by the grown in the river basin. Hindu religion. World’s highest mountain range that sits along the Located in northwestern northern edge of India; China between two mountain includes Mount Everest, the ranges highest mountain in the world. Begins high in the Himalayas and slowly runs through India Third largest ocean; lies and Pakistan; provides water between Africa, Asia, and for one of the largest irrigation Australia systems in the world Southern & Eastern Asia Physical Features and Countries Matching Activity An “arm” of the Indian Ocean Lies between Vietnam and the with India on its west; many Philippines; has violent large rivers, including the monsoons and typhoons Ganges, flow into it An “arm” of the Pacific Ocean Extends out from China in that lies between China and between the Yellow Sea and Korea; it becomes the East the Sea of Japan; divided into China Sea south of the two countries Korean Peninsula An “arm” of the Pacific Ocean Largest country in Southern & that lies between the Eastern Asia continent of Asia and Japan Second largest country in Located on the northern part Southern & Eastern Asia of the peninsula Made up of around 17,000 Located on the southern part islands, but only around 922 of the peninsula are inhabited Located south of China and north of Indonesia along the An island east of the Korean coast of Southern & Eastern Peninsula Asia .