Geography of China

By Megan Chew, Peggy Kern, Betty Lee, and Rachel McKinley

Overview of China

• China is the largest country in Asia• China has high mountains such as the

Himalayas• China has long rivers, some known as the

longest in the world• Large Deserts such as the Taklamakan Desert

Outer China

• Has major climate changes• A large geographical area is called Tibet-Qinghai Plateau.• North of Outer China is a desert area, which is called the

Turfan Depression. • Known for being so hot, raindrops would evaporate before

reaching the ground• Last is the North Eastern Plain• Low hills and plains.• Short hot summer• 5 months of frozen temperature.

Inner China

• Closer to the sea• Lots of rivers and valleys, and plains• More useful for farming• Has two main regions, North is called the

North China Plains, and south is Chang Jiang Basins

Tibet-Qinghai Plateau• Southwestern part of Southwest Outer China is

surrounded by Tibet-Qinghai Plateau• Average elevation above sea level is about

13,500• Known as Roof of the world• Stretches out to almost ¼ of the region• Enclosed by the rocky Himalayas, which is on the

south of the plateau.• Mt. Everest is part of the plateau, reaching up to

more than 29,000 Ft.• Tibet-Qinghai plateau is high up, so the air

climate is thin and dry.• 2 of China’s major rivers start in the plateau,

Huang He (Yellow river) and Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)

Northwest Desert• Northwest of China has large, dry

deserts• One of the desert is Taklamakan

Desert• It’s about 105,000 square miles• One of the most dangerous deserts

in the world• A few legends say that over 300

cities are buried under over 600 ft of sand

• Sandstorms happen often with a horrifying speed

• Almost impossible to map since the sand dunes and sand is shifting and changing.

Northwest Desert (cont.)

• Another one is the Gobi Desert• Larger than the Taklamakan, and is 500,000

square ft• Despite it’s largeness, it has very few sand

duns• Mainly seems to be made of small rocks and

pebbles• Vegetation is rare and seems to be widely

spaced

North China Plains• Very flat• Wide verity of climate, summers go from

being very warm, whilst winters are bitter cold

• 2 rivers run through these plains, one is called the Liao River and the other is called the Sungari

• North China Plains have more jumps in climate change

• Liao is a small, shallow, and narrow river, on the other hand, the Sungari is deep and wide. Both of them freeze during the winter and people use them for roads.

Middle and Lower Chang Jiang Basins

• Low wet coastal plains• Next to a river called Chang Jiang• The Change Jiang is longer than the Huang

He, it’s name means “Long River”• In ancient times, this land may have been

rainforest, but chopped down for farming• People use the Chang Jiang for

transportation goods. • Basins are good for farming rice since it is

warm and moist in the Basins.

Sources• History Alive! Chapter 19• http://www.citypictures.org/data/media/118/china_mountain.jpg• http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images/china

%20flag.gif• http://www.elcamino.edu/studyabroad/images/Great_Wall_of_China-1.jpg• http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/2932219971_be116cd5ee.jpg?v=0• http://www.travelingislife.com/images/The%20Taklamakan%20Desert4.jpg• http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3120220-lg.jpg• http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/images/Asia/factfile/800px-

Gobi_Desert.jpg• http://www.mako.ca/asiabest_ca/products/china/images/yangtze_river.jpg• http://kevinkoski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/

chinamaproute4.JPG• http://enviro-map.com/maps/china.jpg

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