Mapping Asia

Comprehensive Unit70 pagesGrade Level: Middle School – High School Mapping Asia has been designed to serve two major purposes. First, the unit teaches students about the basic physical and political geography of Asia. Second, it introduces, or reviews, fundamental geographical concepts and vocabulary in an Asian context. As stated in the Introduction of Mapping Europe: In a world so shrunken in time and distance that we can communicate almost instantly with any other city on any continent and fly to even more corners of the world in a matter of hours, a knowledge of different places can no longer be considered a luxury. Instead, it has become a necessity. Our interdependence is now so complete that actions—be they economic, political, social or environmental—in one world region can have immediate repercussions in another world region. Asia, by its sheer size in terms of territory (occupying 30% of the earth's landmass) and population (more than 3,000,000,000 people or nearly 60%