Introduction--A piece of China

Our group did not include about the study of China's geography in our learning goal..Why? simply ponder on the lines below..

"mere names of places...are not geography... know by heart a whole gazetteer full of them would not, in itself, constitute anyone a geographer. Geography has higher aims than this: it seeks to classify phenomena (alike of the natural and of the political world, in so far as it treats of the latter), to compare, to generalize, to ascend from effects to causes, and, in doing so, to trace out the great laws of nature and to mark their influences upon man. This is 'a description of the world'—that is Geography. In a word Geography is a Science—a thing not of mere names but of argument and reason, of cause and effect." - William Hughes 1863

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Geography is a very broad topic to discuss, our group wants to focus on what is really important in our subject which is Asian civilization...yet, we know its important to know the description of the topic (China) that we want to learn. So to begin with a more detailed discussions about China (Soon), take alook at the map below:

China is one of the world's oldest continous civilization. It located in East Asia and it is the third largest country in the world with a total land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers. These are the countries sorrounding China that serves as its boundry:

• Mongolia in the North
• Russia in the northeast and northwest
• Korea in the east
• Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar in the east
• Nepal in the southwestIndia and Pakistan in the west

Here is another map of China. This is the same as what Sir Patrick have shown us in his discussion, only that it is specifically, China. So, the more red color you see, the more population there is in the area.

Why is it that not all area is occupied by people? Still, most people in China are farmers and herders and they need enough rainfall for thier living. Fishing is also a major industry along the coast. If you can still remeber the map about Asia's rainfall distribution, It showed us that the most occupied area in the map is also the one receiving enough rainfall throughout the year. That is one BIG reason why these people are staying at one portion in the map.

Well, China is a huge country. It has many regional climate, including the monsoon season. The Northern part of china can have severe winter that may reach below 0 degrees Farenheit , while it's western part which is a desert can have a temperature of about 100 degrees. In fact, due to these differences in climate, China is divided into two region, the Northern China which covers the desert and coldest part in the country and the South China which covers the monsoon part. Historically, these differences led in warfare during pre-modern era. How did it all begun?? Find out sOon..hehe!

Now, still wondering why we did not include everything about the geography of China? It's hard familiarizing all those numeric values of the continents and its provinces land area as well as those other less known landmarks. If you only read once, you'll forget it immediately.I bet, even Chinese people couldn't memorize all these things. ANyway, i hope you learn something from it.

• If there is something you want to learn more about the geography of china, just click this link.It will lead you to a site with a numerous discussion about China's geography..
• And if you want to have an advance reading about the Northern and Southern China, just follow this link.

feel free to comment if there are errors in the information...It will help a lot..