East Asia
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js
DY1Ha83M8
Chinese culture:
Watch the video and tell me
1.What do you think China was trying to
tell the world?
2.What has china contributed to the
world?
3.What did you learn from the video?
Relative Location- How do the
physical features in East Asia
protect it from outside influences?
Introduction
–East Asia is the most populous region in
the world
–China is the most populous country, and
the oldest continuous national culture
–Eastern China is undergoing rapid
economic development
–Japan is extremely wealthy, but poverty
may be found in parts of the region
Growing competition
JAKOTA TRIANGLE – JApan south KOrea & TAiwan
THE JAKOTA
TRIANGLE
•CHARACTERISTICS
–Great cities
–Enormous consumption of
raw materials
–State-of-the-art industries
–Exports
–Rapid development
Environmental Geography:
Resource Pressures in a Crowded
Land
• Flooding, Dam-Building, and Related Issues
– The Three Gorges Controversy
• Yangtze (Chang Jiang) River (largest hydroelectric dam
in the world)
– Purpose: control floods & generate electricity
– Problems: jeopardizes animal species, flood a major
scenic attraction, and over 2 million people
– Erosion on the Loess Plateau
• Huang He’s sediment burden from the Loess Plateau
• Loess – a fine, wind-blown deposited material (yellow)
Three
Gorges Dam
Under
Construction
Yellow River
China’s Grand Canal: North-South
Transportation System
•Centuriesold
engineering
feat that is
being
upgraded for
greater use
in the coastal
growth zone
now.
In China Agriculture Remains
Important: Rice in south & wheat in
North
Population Map of East Asia (Fig.
11.14)
One Child policy
• Attempt at population control
• Caused birth rates to go down but also caused
unequal birth ratio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndWuq6AznmQ
Population and Settlement: A
Realm of Crowded Lowland Basins
• Japan
– Settlement Patterns
• 3 largest metropolitan areas:
Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya
• Population density: 870 per
square miles
• Population density is high
in Taiwan, Hong Kong and
parts of East China as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E
FItMX0
•
KOREA: NORTH-SOUTH
CONTRASTS
NORTH KOREA
– 55% of the land, 1/3 of the population, extremely
rural
– Inefficient, non-productive agriculture
• SOUTH KOREA
– 45% of the land, 2/3s of the population, highly
urbanized
– Modern factories
– Intensive, increasingly mechanized agriculture
North
South
THE
KOREAS
• POPULATION
23,700,000
50,200,000
• GNP (BILLIONS)
$ 21.3
$ 508.3
• GNP/CAPITA
$ 920
$ 8,600
• AGRICULTURE
RESTRICTIVE
GOOD
– (as % of GNP)
25 %
8%
– (% work force)
36 %
21 %
TAIWAN
TAIWAN
• Historical background:
– 1949 – Chinese Nationalists (supported by the
US) fled from the mainland and established
the Republic of China (ROC)
• Territory - approximately 14,000 Square
miles
• Population – 23.7 million
• 77% urbanized