It’s not for nothing that it gets called the rooftop of the world.
Those Himalayan monsters save India from freezing
TIL Japan is a mountain
I’m just wondering why Russia, literally the biggest part of Asia, is missing?And I’m sure someone is gonna be like “oMg DuDe Do YoU sErIoUsLy NoT uNdErStAnD tHiS iS a KaRsT mAp AnD rUsSiAn KaRsT iS pArT oF sOuTh AmErIcA!”
I wonder how there was so many Turk and Mongolian migrations to the south of Asia if it is so hard as it seems…
How are maps like this made?
where is Europe? Asia’s biggest peninsula?
I feel like most people saying “That part of Turkey isn’t part of Asia” or “Where’s the 77% of Asian Russia” are missing the point. Also culturally Russia is not Asian and Turkey is not European. If you really wanted to get technical, Asia shouldn’t even be its own continent. It really should be Eurasia or even Afro-Eurasia since the whole thing is one giant landmass. It’s pretty arbitrary to separate them by a made-up land border
Where is Siberia, Mohan?
The Hump - the flying tigers used to call it
Almost as if you could visualize a whole country on that plateau.
my boi tarim basin looks isolated. i’ve been there and shit it’s post-apocalyptic
If this was accurate people on the Tibet plateau would die because they would be too close to the Sun.
I had no idea Kazakhstan was so flat, I always imagined the Eurasian steppe was a plateau of sorts
Indigo Plateau of real life.