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Plateau of Tibet, Chinese (Pinyin) Qingzang Gaoyuan or (Wade-Giles
romanization) Ch’ing-tsang Kao-yuan, also called Tibetan
Highlands or Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, vast high plateau of southwestern China.
It encompasses all of the Tibet Autonomous Region and much
of Qinghaiprovince and extends into western Sichuan province and southern
Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. The region lies between the Kunlun
Mountains and its associated ranges to the north and
the Himalayas and Karakoram Range to the south and southwest,
respectively; it extends eastward to the Daxue Mountains and, farther south,
the northern and central portions of the Hengduan Mountains. The plateau,
which has an area of about 965,000 square miles (2,500,000 square km), is a
region of tangled mountains and uplands that are generally above 13,000 to
15,000 feet (4,000 to 5,000 metres) in elevation.

Himalayas, Nepali Himalaya, great mountain system of Asia forming a

barrier between the Plateau of Tibet to the north and the alluvial plains
of the Indian subcontinent to the south. The Himalayas include the
highest mountains in the world, with more than 110 peaks rising to
elevations of 24,000 feet (7,300 metres) or more above sea level. One
of those peaks is Mount Everest (Tibetan: Chomolungma; Chinese:
Qomolangma Feng; Nepali: Sagarmatha), the world’s highest, with an
elevation of 29,035 feet (8,850 metres; see Researcher’s Note: Height
of Mount Everest. The mountains’ high peaks rise into the zone of
perpetual snow.
Mount Fuji, Japanese Fuji-san, also spelled Fujisan, also
called Fujiyama or Fuji no Yama, highest mountain in Japan. It rises to
12,388 feet (3,776 metres) near the Pacific Ocean coast
in Yamanashi and Shizuoka ken (prefectures) of central Honshu, about
60 miles (100 km) west of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. It is
a volcano that has been dormant since its last eruption, in 1707, but is
still generally classified as active by geologists. The mountain is the
major feature of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park (1936), and it is at the
centre of a UNESCO World Heritage site designated in 2013.

Mount Everest, Sanskrit and Nepali Sagarmatha,

Tibetan Chomolungma, Chinese (Pinyin) Zhumulangma Feng or (Wade-
Giles romanization) Chu-mu-lang-ma Feng, also spelled Qomolangma
Feng, mountain on the crest of the Great Himalayas of
southern Asia that lies on the border between Nepal and
the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, at 27°59′ N 86°56′ E. Reaching
an elevation of 29,035 feet (8,850 metres), Mount Everest is the highest
mountain in the world.

Gobi, also called Gobi Desert, great desert and semidesert region
of Central Asia. The Gobi (from Mongolian gobi, meaning “waterless
place”) stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China.
Contrary to the perhaps romantic image long associated with what—at
least to the European mind—was a remote and unexplored region,
much of the Gobi is not sandy desert but bare rock. It is possible to
drive over this surface by car for long distances in any direction:
northward toward the Altai and Hangaynmountain ranges, eastward
toward the Da Hinggan (Greater Khingan) Range, or southward toward
the Bei Mountains and Huang He (Yellow River) valley. To the west,
beyond the southwestern limit of the Gobi, lies another arid expanse—
the Tarim Basin of the southern Uygur AutonomousRegion of Xinjiang—
which encompasses the Takla Makan Desert and is enclosed by
the Tien Shan ranges to the north and the Kunlun and
western Altun mountains to the south.
The famed Chocolate Hills of Bohol are not only two but more than 1,268
cone-shaped hills – a very strange geological formation that has baffled a lot
of geologists. The hills are spread over an area of 50 square kilometers or
more and vary in size from 30 meters to 120 meters in height.

The Chocolate Hills appear to be seemingly endless when viewed atop the
hill in Carmen town. The viewing deck there gives you a 360° view of the hills
“as far as the eyes can see”. It is more majestic when viewed from a plane –
them appearing to be thousands of mole hills dotting out from verdant
surroundings.

Mayon Volcano, active volcano, southeastern Luzon, Philippines,

dominating the city of Legaspi. Called the world’s most perfect
volcanic cone because of the symmetry of its shape, it has a base 80
miles (130 km) in circumference and rises to 8,077 feet (2,462 metres)
from the shMayon Volcano, active volcano,
southeastern Luzon, Philippines, dominating the city of Legaspi. Called
the world’s most perfect volcanic cone because of the symmetry of its
shape, it has a base 80 miles (130 km) in circumference and rises to
8,077 feet (2,462 metres) from the shores of Albay Gulf. Popular with
climbers and campers, the volcano is the centre of Mayon Volcano
National Park (21 square miles [55 square km]). There are
large abaca plantations on its lower slopes. There have been more
than 30 eruptions recorded since 1616. An eruption in 1993 caused 79
deaths. Subsequent eruptions in 2000, 2006, 2009, 2014, and 2018
forced tens of thousands of people in nearby villages to evacuate. In
December 2006, rains from powerful Typhoon Durian caused mudslides
and floods at the foot of the volcano that killed more than 1,000
people. Its most destructive eruption was in 1814, when the town of
Cagsawa was buried and approximately 1,200 people were killed.

Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum, Turkmen Garagum or Gara

Gum (“Black Sand”), Russian Karakumy, great sandy region in Central
Asia. It occupies about 70 percent of the area of Turkmenistan.
Another, smaller desert in Kazakhstan near the Aral Sea is called
the Aral Karakum. The Turkmen Karakum is approximately 135,000
square miles (350,000 square km) in area, extending some 500 miles
(800 km) from west to east and 300 miles (500 km) from north to south.
It is bordered on the north by the Sarykamysh Basin, on the northeast
and east by the Amu Darya(ancient Oxus River) valley, and on the
southeast by the Garabil uplands and Badkhyz steppe region. In the
south and southwest the desert runs along the foot of the Kopet-Dag
Mountains, and in the west and northwest it borders the course of the
ancient valley of the Uzboy River. It is divided into three parts: the
elevated northern Trans-Unguz Karakum; the low-lying Central
Karakum; and the southeastern Karakum, through which runs a chain
of salt marshes. Along the border of the Trans-Unguz and Central
Karakum runs the Unguz chain of saline, isolated, eolian (wind-formed)
hollows.

Tien Shan, Chinese (Pinyin) Tian Shan or (Wade-Giles

romanization) T’ien Shan, Russian Tyan Shan, great mountain system
of Central Asia. Its name is Chinese for “Celestial Mountains.”
Stretching about 1,500 miles (2,500 km) from west-southwest to east-
northeast, it mainly straddles the border
between China and Kyrgyzstan and bisects the ancient territory
of Turkistan. It is about 300 miles (500 km) wide in places at its
eastern and western extremities but narrows to about 220 miles (350
km) in width at the centre. The Tien Shan is bounded to the north by
the Junggar (Dzungarian) Basinof northwestern China and the
southern Kazakhstan plains and to the southeast by the Tarim (Talimu)
Basin. To the southwest the Hisor (Gissar) and Alay ranges of
Tajikistan extend into part of the Tien Shan, making the Alay,
Surkhandarya, and Hisor valleys boundaries of the system, along with
the Pamirs to the south. The Tien Shan also includes the Shū-Ile
Mountains and the Qarataū Range, which extend far to the northwest
into the eastern Kazakhstan lowlands. Within these limits the total
area of the Tien Shan is about 386,000 square miles (1,000,000 square
km).

K2, Chinese Qogir Feng, also called Mount Godwin Austen, called
locally Dapsang or Chogori, the world’s second highest peak (28,251
feet [8,611 metres]), second only to Mount Everest. K2 is located in
the Karakoram Range and lies partly in a Chinese-administered enclave
of the Kashmir region within the Uygur Autonomous Region
of Xinjiang, China, and partly in the Gilgit-Baltistan portion of Kashmir
under the administration of Pakistan. The glacier- and snow-
covered mountain rises from its base at about 15,000 feet (4,570
metres) on the Godwin Austen Glacier, a tributary of the Baltoro
Glacier. The mountain was discovered in 1856 by Col. T.G.
Montgomerie of the Survey of India, and it was given the symbol K2
because it was the second peak measured in the Karakoram Range.
The name Mount Godwin Austen is for the peak’s first surveyor, Col.
H.H. Godwin Austen, a 19th-century English geographer.

Mga Nilalaman

Plateau of Tibet
Himalayas
Mt. Fuji
Mt. Everest
Gobi Dessert
Chocolate Hills
Mayon Volcano
Karakum Desset
Tien Shan
Mt. K2