A different Turkey – experience the amazing scenery of Cappadocia. Cappadocia in Turkey is an area in the highlands of Central Anatolia, known for its special rock formations and underground cities. Cappadocia is a magnificent masterpiece of the forces of nature...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock Yemen is mainly in the middle parts a highland and has a very changing topography. The mountain peak Hadur Shuayb just west of Sana is the highest on the entire Arabian Peninsula, 3,760 m asl. Within...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock Throughout most of Vietnam, the Annamitic Mountains extend in the northwest-southeast direction, which occupies about two-thirds of the country’s area. The highest part consists of crystalline solid at the far north, where the peak Phăng-xi-păng rises...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, the western part of Uzbekistan is a very flat lowland, comprising about 80 percent of the surface, while the eastern part is mountainous. Around the Aral Sea in the northwest stretch parts of...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The coast towards the Persian Gulf is a smoothed tidal coast with coral reefs and wide, flat and vegetation-free deposits with the character of salt deserts, so-called sabkha. The tidal currents are constantly changing the appearance...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Turkmenistan is one in four fifths of plains. Only the border regions in the south towards Iran and in the southeast towards Afghanistan are highlands. The seismically active mountain range Kopet-Dag forms a...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock Most of Turkey belongs to a protruding peninsula between the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean. In general, it is a highland with an average height of 1,100 m above sea level, divided into streams and...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Northern Thailand is mountainous with elongated, parallel mountain ranges in the Himalayan extension to the south. The highest peak, Doi Inthanon, is 2,558 meters above sea level. Granite ridges and uneven limestone areas...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Tajikistan is high and mountainous; more than half of the surface is more than 3,000 m above sea level. Northern and central Tajikistan are dominated by outcrops from the Tian Shan mountain range....
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, the island of Taiwan has, due to major faults, gained a north-south extent and a general slope to the west. The east coast is steep and straight. Inside it rise the high Zhongyang...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock A narrow coastal zone between Lebanon and Turkey, about 140 km long, has alternating sandy beaches and rocky coasts, the latter most in the north. The mountain massif begins immediately within the coastal zone with Jabal...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Sri Lanka is separated from India by the narrow and shallow Pole Strait. Most of the country is lowland. Particularly extensive is the lowland to the north. The country has plenty of coral...
History up to World War II (see Korea) On August 15, 1948, the republic was established in the southern zone of the Korean Peninsula with the capital of Seul. Syngman Rhee was named the first President of the Republic. With the...
Nature According to COUNTRYAAH, Singapore Island has a predominantly flat terrain; close to 2/3 of the island is lower than 15 m above sea level. In the middle of the island, however, there are a number of granite cliffs, among others....
Saudi Arabia has long been closed to Western tourists. Now, with the Vision 2030 project, the country is looking to the future with more open eyes and is gradually breaking the curtain on tourism in a broader sense. Terrain shapes and...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The huge geographical extent of the Russian Federation makes the landscape extremely varied. Plains have their largest distribution in the northern parts, west of Jenisei, while mountain scenery, plateaus and larger hill areas occur most in...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The landscape consists of a flat limestone plateau that rises from east to west. The highest lots are hills. On the north and east coast there are occasional cliff slopes. Sand dunes occur in the country’s...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The many and irregularly shaped islands provide a coastline of more than 34,000 km. Their inner parts are high and mountainous with slopes torn by rivers, which usually flow north. The islands are made up of...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The central natural region of Pakistan is the Indus plain, which is also the most important from an economic point of view. It is mainly made up of fertile river deposits and is crossed in its...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The al-Hajar mountain range in the north, which in the massif Jabal al-Akhdar reaches 3,018 m above sea level, is separated from the Oman Bay by a narrow alluvial plain. To the south, a large stone...
On February 16, 1948, the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was proclaimed in Pyongyang. The leader of the Korean Workers’ Party (KAP), Kim Il Sung was inaugurated as the country’s first prime minister. The story up to independence...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock Topographically, Nepal forms a steep transition between the Himalayas and the northern Indian plains. The height differences are therefore very large and Nepal can accommodate a wide range of landforms and types of habitat. At the...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The main features of the terrain in Burma are entirely determined by the north-south bedrock structures that emerged during the folding of this eastern part of the Himalayas. The country also has a general slope from...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Mongolia is a highland with an average height of nearly 1,600 m above sea level. The northern part of the country is dominated by three long mountain ranges. The longest and highest, Altaj,...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, the Maldives are made up of a wide range of coral islands, located on the deep-sea spine of the Maldives. The individual islands have been built on volcanic canoes and volcanic ridges that...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Western Malaysia is penetrated by a number of parallel, north-south mountain ranges. The highest reaches with Tahan 2,189 meters above sea level. About half of the area’s area is more than 150 meters...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Lebanon has a strongly embossed relief with heights of over 3,000 meters above sea level. Most of the country is mountainous and sloping areas therefore dominate. Lebanon is usually divided into four topographical...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, most of Laos is highland, especially in the north where a series of steep ridges with sharp ridges in the northeast – southwest direction meet the country. The peaks reach a height of...
Nature According to COUNTRYAAH, Kyrgyzstan is on the whole a very mountainous country, but between the mountain ranges, where Pik Pobedy with its 7 439 m. is one of the higher peaks in Asia outside the Himalayas, valleys like the Fergana...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Kuwait’s land area is low and flat with a slight general rise from the coast along the Persian Gulf towards the border to the west. The easternmost part of Saudi Arabia’s plateau country...
Nature According to COUNTRYAAH, Kazakhstan can be geographically divided into four main areas: the Kyrgyz steppes in the northwest, the highlands in the northeast, the lowlands north of the Aral Sea and northeast of the Caspian Sea in the south, and...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Jordan is part of the Arabian Plateau and can be divided into three topographical regions, the Jordan basin in the west, the highlands east of it and the desert plateau in the far...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Japan forms part of the mountain range along the northern and western coasts of the Pacific. The origin and physical character of the Japanese islands is a consequence of their boundary position between...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock The country’s topography varies greatly and different natural regions can be clearly discerned. The central landform region is a hill and mountain landscape that extends in the north-south direction between the coast and the Jordan Valley,...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock A centrally located region of Iraq is the lowlands around the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It is a lowering field with a fill area in the far south and separates a plateau-like desert area in the...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Iran is a highland with a pelvic interior surrounded by high mountain ranges. Lowland is only along the two coastal stretches of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf and the Oman Bay....
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock According to COUNTRYAAH, Indonesia’s many islands lie in arcuate rows along the continental shelves, often with deep-sea tombs on the convex side. In Indonesia, the Eurasian plate, the Pacific plate and the Indian-Australian plate meet. Along...
Nature Terrain shapes and bedrock India has three topographical major regions with completely different landform type and geological development history. At the far north, the high mountain masses of the Himalayas rise and at the far south the Indian Plateau forms...
Nature According to COUNTRYAAH, Georgia has predominantly (about 85%) mountainous terrain and high altitude contrasts at small distances. Northern Georgia includes parts of the Caucasus mountain ranges with peaks such as Shchara (5,064 m above sea level) and the extinct Kazbek...
Geography Terrain shapes and climate According to COUNTRYAAH, East Timor’s interior is highland, broken up by north-south lows. Between them are small plateaus and extinguished volcanoes. In restricted areas, the soil is of volcanic origin and therefore relatively fertile, but mostly...