1. Last Time
Korea
Environment, settlement

2. Today
East Asia- continued
Korea-continued
Taiwan
Environment, settlement, history, & economy
South Asia
Geophysical Environmental regions
Climate — key to life in S Asia

3. Korea
Cultural historical factors
Independence
Yet conquest & domination
Economy
S. Korean economic “miracle”
Unification issues

7. Taiwan (Formosa)
Physical geography
Tropical/sub-tropical climate: Warm and wet
Hilly (tectonic) landscape
Settlement and population
History and culture
Economics

11. Taiwan (Formosa)
Settlement and population
1/4 size of NC but with > 20 m pop
High physiological density
History and culture
Chinese occupation from 1600s
Japanese occupation
Current “Nationalist” government
Economics
Another Asian “tiger”
Unification issues

14. (with world’s tallest skyscraper)
Taipei at night
(with world’s tallest skyscraper)

15. South Asia Environments
Tectonic forces
Indian plate collision with Eurasian plate
=> severe earthquake hazard
Oct Pakistan Earthquake
Mountain barriers to the N and W
Himalayas

17. Oct quake

24. South Asia Environments II
Deserts
West of Indus R. valley
Thar or Great Indian

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27. South Asia Environments III
Great River valleys
Ganges
Indus
Brahmaputra
Indian (or Deccan) plateau and the Ghats

28. Indus
Ganges
Brahmaputra

30. South Asia Environments IV
Indian (or Deccan) plateau and the Ghats

31. Deccan Plateau
W. Ghats
E. Ghats

32. W Ghats

33. Climate Climatic regions Dry and semi-arid in W
Rainfall variable with elevation, aspect, and location
Hot tropical and semi-tropical
Seasonal progression of temperatures
The “monsoon” is the summer rainfall regime in most of S Asia and SE Asia
A system of alternating-direction winds

34. Calicut in the W Ghats