World Geography PART IV (CONCLUDING PART)-ASIA & Others

• In Borobudur(Java) worlds largest Buddhist monastry
• Parliament of Japan- Diet and of Israel-Knesset
• Igorot is a tribe in Philippines
  
• Honshu is the largest Japanese Island
• La Perouse strait between Hokkaido island and Sakhalin
• Caspian sea is bordered by Iran,Kazakhstan,Russia,Turkmenistan,Azerbaijan
• Jordan is the only land locked west Asian nation
• Mt Mayon is an active Volcano in Luzon,Philippines
• Tatar strait separates Russia and Sakhalin
• Sunda strait separates Java and Sumatra
• Malacca strait separates Sumatra and Malaysia
  
• Dasht e Kavir-Largest salt desert in the world(Iran)
• South China Sea is the largest sea in the world and the largest water body after 5 oceans
• Hwang Ho is also known as Yellow river
• Pynmana is the new capital of Myanmar
• Bangkok is on Chao Phraya river
• Laos is the only landlocked nation of West Asia
• Baghdad is on the bank of Tigris river
• Kirkuk in Iraq is the largest oil field in the world
• Majlis is the parliament of both Maldives and Iran
• Tatar is the narrowest strait
• Malaysia is the largest producer of palm oil
• Nigeria largest producer of Ground nut oil
• Veddas is a tribe in Sri Lanka
• Ainu is a tribe in Japan
• Maginot line separates Germany and France
• Rub Ul Khail is the largest continuous stretch of desert in Saudi Arabia
• Famous Karaganda coal mine is in Kazakhstan
• Negev desert in Israel
• Upper Volta is the earlier name of Burkino Fuso
• 38 parallel separates North and South Korea
• Yawata is the largest iron & steel plant in Japan
• Andorra has the highest life expectancy in the world, 85 years
• Area wise continents Asia-Africa,N America,S America,Europe,Australia
• Big Inch Pipeline bet'n Gulf of Mexico and NE Part of America
• Trans Arabian Pipeline-Ras Tanura to Sidon
• Torres strait separates Australia and New Guinea
• Downs-Temperate grassland in AustraliaFoveux starit separates Southern NewZealand and Steward Island
• COMECON pipeline-Volga basin to East European countries
  
• Mexico is the highest producer of Sulphur
• Ashanti is a tribe in Ghana
  
• Canary Islands belong to Spain
• Tamanithi HEP bet'n India and Myanmar, on Chindwin river
  
• El Al is the airlines of Israel
• Cathay Pacific-Airlines of HongKong
• Macao is governed by China.Earlier it was governed by Portugal