🌏 Tropic of Cancer passes ONLY through Myanmar in South East Asia.
🌏 Equator passes ONLY through Indonesia in South East Asia.
MEKONG RIVER
Mekong is the longest river of South East Asia.
Mekong River rises in the Himalayas in China, in an area called the ‘three-rivers area’. The other two rivers that rise here are Yangtze river and Yellow river.
The Mekong passes through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Most of the territories of Laos and Cambodia fall within the basin. Vientiane, the capital of Laos, and Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, both are located on the banks of Mekong river.
The Mekong Delta region lies immediately to the west of Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam.
The Mekong basin is the second most diverse area on earth, after the Amazon. No other river is home to so many species of very large fish.
The Mekong Basin contains the world’s largest inland fishery.
Note the location of the two important cities of Vietnam: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City
Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam, but not the largest city of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City is the largest and the most populous city of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is the business and financial hub of Vietnam.
LAOS
Laos' strategies for development are based on :
➤ Generating electricity from rivers and selling the power to its neighbours - Thailand, China, and Vietnam
➤ Becoming a "land-linked" nation, by the construction of four new railways connecting Laos and neighbours.
GOLDEN TRIANGLE
The Golden Triangle is the area where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar meet at the confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers.
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KURIL ISLANDS AND SAKHALIN - RUSSIA
Kuril Islands is an archipelago in Sakhalin province of far-eastern Russia.
The archipelago extends for 1,200 km from the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia to the northeastern corner of Hokkaido island of Japan and separates the Sea of Okhotsk from the Pacific Ocean.
There are 56 islands and many minor rocks. It consists of the Greater Kuril Chain and the Lesser Kuril Chain.
Japan stakes partial claim to southernmost islands.
Okinawa is a Japanese island in East China Sea.
Japan consists of 4 major islands; Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
1⃣ Hokkaido - northernmost of Japan’s four main islands
Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaido from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel.
2⃣ Honshu - largest of the four main islands of Japan.
3⃣ Shikoku - smallest of Japan’s four main islands.
4⃣ Kyushu - southernmost of Japan's four main islands (excluding Okinawa).