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Asian Geography
Asian Countries

Asian Subregions
Green: Middle East
Blue: North Asia
Red: South Asia
Pink: Central Asia
Yellow: East Asia
Orange: South East Asia
Asian Types of Governments

Constitutional Monarchies:
* Japan
* Thailand
* Cambodia
* Malaysia
* Bhutan
* Bahrain
Kingdoms (Absolute Monarchies)
* Brunei (sultanate)
* Oman (sultanate)
*Qatar
* Saudi Arabia (Islamic)
Communist
* China
* North Korea
* Laos
* Vietnam

Republics
* Parliamentary
* Mongolia
* Singapore
* Bangladesh
* Islamic
* Afghanistan
* Pakistan
* Iran
* Authoritarian
* Kazakhstan
* Uzbekistan
* Republics
* Kyrgyzstan
* Tajikistan
* South Korea* Hong Kong (limited republic)
* Taiwan
* Indonesia
* Philippines
* East Timor
* India (Federal)
* Nepal (Federal)
* Pakistan
* Sri Lanka

Locate Lakes and Other Geographic Stuff
Longest River: Yangtze River
Other Rivers: Yellow River, Ganges River.
Archipelagos: Japan and the Philippines.
Highest Point: Mt. Everest (Nepal)
LowestPoint: Dead Shore (Isreal/Jordan)
Landlocked Countries: Mongolia, Nepal, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.
Bodies of Water: South Aral Sea (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan), Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan).
Asian Economy
During the past decades the Asian countries have grown into big economic forces. Some of the top national economies this day are Asian countries. The runner-upsfor strongest Asian economy are called the “Asian tigers” and the emerging economies from this continent are called the “Tiger Cubs”

ASIAN TIGERS | TIGER CUBS |
Hong Kong | Indonesia |
South Korea | Malaysia |
Singapore | Philippines |
Taiwan | Thailand |

Let’s compare the three strongest economies in Asia because that comes in the exam.
China: One party government (CommunistParty) with an increasingly liberalized economy.
India: Democratic government with a socialist approach to economics.
Japan: Capitalist government closely allied with the US after WWII, especially for development aims, kept a low profile in international and political affairs.
The Geese and Japan’s ego
The flying geese model was a multi-tiered model used to describe how industrialization anddevelopment spread from one level to another.
ASEAN
ASEAN
NIEs
NIEs
SECOND GAGGLE
SECOND GAGGLE
Indonesia
Indonesia
Philippines
Philippines
Malaysia
Malaysia
Singapore
Singapore
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Taiwan
China
China
Thailand
Thailand
S. Korea
S. Korea
Japan
Japan
FIRST GAGGLE
FIRST GAGGLE
Japan
Japan
LDC
LDC
LDC
LDC
LLDC
LLDC
LLDC
LLDC

The First andSecond gaggles are the times in the economic history of Asia that the leading country, which was both times Japan, messed up. Here is a chart straight out of the teacher’s ppt describing the events that took place during each gaggle, enjoy!

The greatest period for Japan’s economic growth was since the end of WWII up to the 1990’s. The 80’s was a greater period of development for Southeast Asia.
Wecan now learn more about Japan, since it seems to be so important to Asian economy. Let’s take a look at Japan’s advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages: Regional development for economic integration. Production network through East Asia focused on manufacturing. Japan uses foreign aid as a foreign tool policy. Japan has a mercantilist approach.
Disadvantages: Economic crises stoppeddevelopment. Japan needs to work on dissipating an anti-Western sentiment in the region. Japan has the temptation to act as a self-appointed Asian leader.

China and Hollywood
So we talked about the Japanese, let’s talk about our second favorite Asian country: China.
China has started a gradual liberalization starting with certain enclaves and opening up more cities along the coast (Special Economic...