Car Rental Asia
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As you may know the world’s largest content is
Asia. Asia contains a total of 44 countries and island
dependencies.
Main Attractions of this continent are the world's tallest
mountain, mt Everest in Nepal, at 29,035 ft (8,850m),
and some of the world's most populated countries, China
and India
The lowest point on this continent is the Dead Sea,
which is located in Israel It is 1,286 ft (392m) below
sea level.
The distribution of Asia's huge population is governed
by climate and topography, with the monsoons and the
fertile alluvial plains determining the areas of greatest
density. Such are the Ganges plains of India and the
Chang (Yangtze) and northern plains of China, the small
alluvial plains of Japan, and the fertile volcanic soils
of the Malay Archipelago. Urbanization is greatest in
the industrialized regions of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan,
but huge urban centers are to be found throughout the
continent.
Almost two thirds of Asia's indigenous population is
of Mongolic stock. Major religions are Hinduism (in
India); Theravada Buddhism (in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand,
Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos); Lamaism, or Tibetan Buddhism
(in Mongolia and China, particularly Tibet); East Asian
Buddhism (in China and Korea, mixed with Confucianism,
shamanism, and Taoism; in Japan mixed with Shinto and
Confucianism); Islam (in SW and S Asia, W central Asia,
and Indonesia); and Catholicism (in the Philippines,
East Timor, and Vietnam).
Subsistence hunting and fishing economies prevail in
the forest regions of N and S Asia, and nomadic pastoralism
in the central and southwestern regions, while industrial
complexes and intensive rice cultivation are found in
the coastal plains and rivers of S and E Asia. Because
of extremes in climate and topography, less than 10%
of Asia is under cultivation. Rice, by far the most
important food crop, is grown for local consumption
in the heavily populated countries (e.g., China, India,
Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Japan), while countries with
smaller populations (Thailand, Vietnam, and Pakistan)
are generally rice exporters. Other important crops
are wheat, soybeans, peanuts, sugarcane, cotton, jute,
silk, rubber, tea, and coconuts.
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