Facts About Asia

Asia is the world’s largest continent, stretching from Europe in the west to Japan in the east.
It has a total area of 44,680,718 sq km.
Asia has huge climate extremes, from a cold polar climate in the north to a hot tropical one in the south.
Verkhoyansk in Siberia has had temperatures as high as 37°C and as low as —68°C.
The Himalayas are the highest mountains in the world, with 14 peaks over 8000 m high.
To the north are vast deserts, broad grasslands and huge coniferous forests. To the south are fertile plains and valleys and tropical jungles.
Baikal is the deepest lake — 1743m — and it holds 20 percent of the world’s fresh water.
Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, is about 25 million years old. It contains about one-fifth of all the world’s fresh water. The water is carried there by 336 rivers that flow into it.
Lake Baikal has the world’s only freshwater seals, and among its many unique animals is a fish that bears live young.
Asia is a vast continent of wide plains and dark forests in the north, separated from the tropical south by the Himalayas.
Northern Asia sits on one giant tectonic plate.
India is on a separate plate that crashed into the north Asia years ago. It is piling up the Himalayas as it ploughs on nor
Asia’s longest river is China’s Yangtze, 5520 km long.
Asia’s highest mountain is the world’s highest — Mt Everest, in Nepal at 8848 m.
The Caspian Sea between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan is the lake, covering 378,400 sq km.

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