The New Childrens Encyclopedia

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East

China

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Yellow

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Sea of

Okhotsk

East

Siberian

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Laptev

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Sea of

Japan

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Timor

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Andaman

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(administered

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by India)

CHINA

INDIA

SRI LANKA

PAKISTAN

KYRGYZSTAN

TAJIKISTAN

BHUTAN

BANGLADESH

JAPAN

MONGOLIA

KAZAKHSTAN

NE

PAL

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BURMA

(MYANMAR)

TAIWAN

THAILAND PHILIPPINES

INDONESIA

CAMBODIA

SINGAPORE

BRUNEI

NORTH

KOREA

SOUTH

KOREA

MALAYSIA

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION

EAST TIMOR

MALDIVES

Mashhad

Yekaterinburg

Kyzylorda

Kandahar

Karachi

Hyderabad

Ahmadabad

Mumbai

(Bombay)

Karaganda

Omsk

Lahore

Cochin

Almaty

Delhi

Bhopal

Bangalore

Nagpur

Chennai

(Madras)

Varanasi

Novosibirsk

Irkutsk

Urumqi

Noril’sk

Kolkata

(Calcutta)

Medan

Balikpapan

Ambon

Makassar

Malang

Palembang

Semarang

Rangoon

Kunming

Lanzhou

Chengdu

Chongqing

Ho Chi

Minh City

Guiyang

Xi’an

Guangzhou

Hong Kong

(Xianggang)

Kaohsiung

Wuhan

Nanjing

Fuzhou

Qingdao

Shanghai

Dalian

Legazpi City

Cebu

Davao

Jilin

Harbin

Pusan

Yakutsk

Vladivostok

Hiroshima

Khabarovsk

Osaka

Sapporo

Magadan

Manado

Jayapura

ASGABAT

MUSCAT

DUSHANBE

KABUL

TASHKENT

BISHKEK

NEW

DELHI

COLOMBO

KATHMANDU THIMPHU

DHAKA

SINGAPORE

KUALA LUMPUR

JAKARTA

BANGKOK

VIENTIANE

NAY PYI TAW

PHNOM PENH

HANOI

ULAN BATOR

BEIJING

MANILA

TAIPEI

BANDAR SERI

BEGAWAN

PYONGYANG

SEOUL

TOKYO

ISLAMABAD

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CONTINENTS OF

THE WOLRD

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 DUBAI is the biggest city in the

United Arab Emirates (UAE). Most of

it has been built in the last 40 years.

A belt of thousands of islands stretches from

southeast Asia to Australia. There are more

than 13,500 islands in Indonesia alone.

The northern and central

part of Russia is known

as Siberia. This region is

bitterly cold

in the winter.

The Ural Mountains in

Russia form the

boundary between

Asia and Europe.