locations COPY Flashcards
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Andes Mountains
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mountian range that runs all the way through the west coast of south america beginning in argentina and ending in venezuela
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Sierra Madres
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mountian range the runs northwest to southwest and northeast to southeast of mexico with central mexico mostly clear of mountains
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Atacama Desert
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on the west coast of south america, mostly in northern chile, thoughparts run through peru, bolivia, and argentina.
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Amazon River Basin
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mid-northern south america, norther brazil, peru, columbia, ecuador, and bolivia. the river runs through northern brazil and peru.
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Pampas
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a treeless plain running through eastern argentina, all of uraguay, and a small bit of southern brazil
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Llanos
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a grassy plain running throu central columbia and venezuela
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Amazon Rainforest
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mid-northern south america, norther brazil, peru, columbia, ecuador, and bolivia
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Mexico City
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the capital of mexico, in south-central mexico between the Sierra Madres
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Rio de Janeiro
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the second most populated city in brazil, in southeast brazil on the coast.
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Buenos Aires
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the capital of argentina, in northeast argentina on the south coast of La Plata
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Santiago
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the capital of chile, in central chile on the eastern side
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Eurasia
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modern day europe and asia as one continent, northeast of africa
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Iberian Peninsula
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spain and portugal, southwest of france
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Scandinavian Peninsula
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norway and sweden, west of finland
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Italian Peninsula
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all of italy, south of switzerland, northwest of greece
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Jutland Peninsula
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all of denmark, north of germany, south of norway and sweden
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Great Britain
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the whales, england, and scotland part of the UK, east of Ireland and west of denmark
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Sicily
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southwest of italian mainland, west of greece
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Alps
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mountian range that runs in an arc north of Italy, touching the southern parts of france, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, covering all of liechtenstien, and the western part of slovenia
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Pyrenees
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mountian range that runs on the border between France and Spain, covering all of andorra
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Northern European Plain
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a mostly flat plain that stretches across the western part of russia through most of Eastern Ukraine, then arches down through the border between bulgaria and romania, then arches up through most of the northern coast of Europe and ending in western France. it also covers all of finland and northwestern kazakhstan (central eurasia)
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Danube
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a river that stretches from the northern east coast of romania through the border between romania and Bulgaria, northern serbia, then west at budepest in hungary and runs to southwestern germany (southeastern and central europe)
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Rhine
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a river that begins in southern germany and arches in a backward c until basel, then arches northwest to southwestern coast in the netherlands
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Seine
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a river that starts in paris and goes west in a squiggly shape to honfleur
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Volga
a river that runs frum the russian southcoast just east of Kazakhstan and goes north until the Valdai Hills northwest of moscow
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Adriatic Sea
a sea in east of the italian penninsula and west of croatia down to albania
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Aegean Sea
a sea tha sourounds the eastern side of greece and its eastern islands
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Mediterranean Sea
a sea south of europe and turkey and north of africa
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Baltic Sea
a sea east of sweden and west of Lithuania, latvia, estonia, etc
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Black Sea
a sea north of turkey and south of ukraine
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North Sea
a sea southwest of Norway, east of the Uk, and north of mainland europe
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Atlantic Ocean
the ocean east of the americas and west of Europe and africa
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Arctic Ocean
the ocean covering the northmost part of the world, north of every continent
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Strait of Gibraltar
the strip of water south of spain and north of morraco
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Black Forest
a forest in southwestern germany
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Ruhr Valley
a valley in northwestern germany east of the Netherlands, produces most of Germany's black coal
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Po Valley
a valley in the northernmost part of Italy, just south of Switzerland and Austria-creates hydroelectricity for switzerland
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Berlin
the capital of germany- a city in northeastern germany between oder river and Elbe river
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London
the capital of england, in the southeastern part of england, north of france
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Paris
the capital of france, in the northern part of the county, southwest of berlin
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Madrid
the capital of spain, right in the center of the country
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Rome
the capital of italy, in the central area of the eastern part of the country, just a small bit inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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Athens
the capital of greece, in the central southern part of the country on the coast of the medditerrain sea
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Warsaw
the capital of poland in the eastern part of the country, just northwest of the border between balarus and ukraine
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Mississippi River
a river beginning in southeast louisiana and running along the borders between Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, louisiana, and illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi, then curves into wisconson and goes north to central wisconson
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St. Lawrence River
a river starting a quebec city and going south through the great lakes to detroit
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Colorado River
a river starting in northern calarado and runing south through utah and arizona and exits through western Mexico into the pacific ocean
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Columbia River
a river that runs from eastern British Columbia south to create the border between Washington and Oregon, then discharges into the pacific ocean on the west oregon/washington coast
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Rio Grande
a river that starts in southern colorado and runs through new Mexico south to create the border between texas and Mexico. it discharges into the gulf of mexico
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Gulf of Mexico
the gulf in the middle of the eastern circle that Mexico, the us, and cuba creates
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Great Lakes
a series of freshwater lakes that lays in then interior eastern central part of north America. they surround michigan and wisconson in the US and Toronto in Canada
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Hudson Bay
The bay in Canada west of Quebec and southeast of nunavut
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Aleutian Islands
The string of islands that run off of western Alaska in a upwards arc towards eastern Russia (the border between the Pacific Ocean and Bering sea)
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Hawaiian Archipelago
Southwest of the coast of California in the pacific ocean
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Appalachian Mountains
The mountain range beginning in the northernmost part of Maine and running south to the northern part of Georgia
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Pacific Coastal Range
a moutian range that follows along the west coast of the US that begins in northernmost washington and ends in central california
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Basin and Range
a basin and range chain chain running from northwestern US to central mexico
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Rocky Mountains
a large mountian range running from northernmost alaska south to northern new mexico
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Great Plains
a flatland east of the southern rocky mountians beginning in central alberta in canada and ending in southern texas
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Interior Lowlands
a lowland running from the tip of northwest canada to the northernmost tip of mexico
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Atlantic & Gulf Coastal Plain
a area of land beginning in central texas and moving northeast until central new jersey
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Canadian Shield
an area of land beginning in northerneast most canada and curving down until it touches new york, michigan, minnisota and wisconson, then it curves back up to northcentral canada
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Grand Canyon
an extensive canyon that is cut through by the Colorado river in northwest Arizona
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Toronto
a city in south eastern ontario in canada
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Montreal
a city in southern quebec in Canada
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Ottawa
the capital of canada, located in south eastern ontario
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Quebec
a province in canada northeast of ontario and southwest of new foundland and labrador
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Vancouver
a city in southern british columbia, canada. just north of washington state in the US
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British Columbia
a province in canada east of the gulf of alaska, west of alberta, north of the US
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Washington D.C.
a district that is the captal of the USA, on the border between virginia and maryland
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Chicago
a major city in northern illinois
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New York City
a major city in southern New York, east of new jersey
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Los Angeles
a major city in southern calfornia
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Houston
a major city in eastern texas, just west of the gulf of mexico
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Sahara
a major desert taking up most of northern africa, stopping at south niger
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Sahel
a region cutting through central sudan and chad and following straight west to the atlantic coast
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Atlas Mountains
a mountian range in north africa cutting through moracco, north algeria, and a small bit of west tunisia
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Taurus Mountains
a mountian range in south west turkey, directly north of cyprus
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Zagros Mountains
a mountian range beginning in southrn turkey and running southeast through a little bit of iraq and then iran
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Mediterranean Sea
the sea north of africa and south of europe
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Red Sea
the sea west of suadi arabia and asia and east of sudan and africa
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Black Sea
the sea north of turkey and south of ukraine
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Arabian Sea
the nsea south of pakistan and oman and west of india
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Persian/Arabian Gulf
the sea west of iran and east of saudi arabia
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Strait of Hormuz
the body of water north of the tip of the united arab emirates
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Tehran
the capital of iran located in northern iran
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Bosporus Strait
the body of water connecting the black sea to the sea marmara in northern turkey
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Dardanelles Strait
the body of water connecting the sea of marmara to the aegean sea in northern turkey
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Nile River
a large river beginning in lake victoria south of uganda and discharging in nothern egypt (flows north)
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Tigris River
a river starting in southern turkey and flowing west then south to discharge in the persian gulf (north of euphrates)
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Euphrates River
a river starting in southern turkey and flowing west then south to discharge in the persian gulf (south of tigris)
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Jordan River
a river beginning on the central part of the border between lebanon and syria, and flowwing south to discharge into the dead sea
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Baghdad
the capitaal of iraq loccated in the center of iraq
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Cairo
the capital of egypt, located in north eastern egypt
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Istanbul
a city in northern turkey, just north of the Bosporus Strait
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Jerusalem
the capital of isreal and also palestine, located somewhere in central isreal (including the west bank)
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Mecca
a city in saudi arabia, located in western saudi arabia just a little east of the red sea
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Kalahari Desert
a desert taking up most of botswana and parts of eastern nambia and northern south africa
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Namib Desert
a desert taking up the west coast of nambia and a bit of the west coast of angola
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Zambezi River
a river starting on the border of southern central DRC and eastern angola and swervind south east to discharge off the coast of southern mozambique
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Niger River
a river that starts in the center of the border between sierra leone and guinea and curving in and upside down c to discharge off the coast of nigeria
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Congo River
a river beginning in southern democratic republic of the congo and curving in a large upside down c to discharge of the southern west coast of the DRC
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Indian Ocean
the ocean surrounded by asia, africa, and australia
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Lake Victoria
the lake north of tanzania and south of uganda and kenya
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Lake Tanganyika
a lake running through the border between tanzania and burundi and DRC and zambia
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Lagos
a city on the coast of the atlantic ocean in southwestern nigeria
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Dakar
the capital of senegal, located on the westernmost tip of senegal bordering the atlantic ocean
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Johannesburg
a city in northern central south africa just south of the city of Pretoria
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Caucasus
a region running through southern russia and northern georgia and azerbaijan
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Ural Mountains
a mountian range running north to south in western russia
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Siberia
a region in northern central just north of the nizhnyaya tunguska
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Volga River
a river in russia beginning east of latvia and curving in a backwards c to discharge in the caspian sea
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Ob River
a river on the edge of central russia just west of the western siberian plain flows south to the edge of kazakhstan and mongolia
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Amur River
a river starting in Mongolia and forming the border between north-east China and south-east Russia.
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Lake Baikal
a lake in south-east Siberia in russia
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Caspian Sea
a body of water south of russia and kazakhstan and north of iran
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Aral Sea
a body of water between kazakhstan and uzbekistan
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Bering Strait
the body of water west of alaska and east of russia
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Moscow
capital of russia in western russia
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St Petersburg
a city in western russia southeast of finland
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Novosibirsk
a city in southern russia northeast of kazakhstan
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Himalayas
a mountian range running through northern india and pakastan, all of nepal and bhutan, and a little of southern china
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Western and Eastern Ghats
mountian ranges on the southeast and south west coast of india
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Mount Fuji
a stratovolcano in southeastern japan just a bit in from the pacific ocean
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Bay of Bengal
the body of water east of india and west of malaysia
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Ganges River
a river in northern india just south of napal that discharges in the bay of bengal
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Indus River
a river beginning in southwestern china and moving northwest then south to discharge in the pakisanian coast of the arabian sea
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Brahmaputra River
a rive that flows east through southern china then southwest to discharge in the bay of bengal of the coast off bangladesh
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Yangtze River (Chaing Jiang)
a river starting in central china and flowing south and then northeast to discharge in the phillipinian sea
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Mekong River
a river starting in southern china and flowing south to discharge in the south china sea off the tip of vietnam
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Yellow River (Huang He)
a river starting in central china and flowing north then south then east to discharge in the Philippine sea west of north korea
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Tokyo
the capital of japan just of the cental eastern coast of japan
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Beijing
the capital of china in northeastern china east of north korea
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New Deli
the capital of india in northwestern india west of the tip of nepal
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Australia
a continent country island in the pacific/indian ocean south of indionisia
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New Zealand
a country island southeast of australia in the pacific ocean
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Papua New Guinea
a country east of Indonesia and south of guam
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The Great Dividing Range
a system of mountain ranges running along the east coast of australia
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The Great Barrier Reef
a reef in the pacific ocean off the northeastern coast of australia
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Canberra A.C.T (Australian Capital Territory)
the capital of australia on the southeastern side of the country, just a bit west from the southeastern coast
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Sydney
a city on the southeastern coast of australia northeast of canberra
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Melbourne
a city on the southernmost tip of mainland australia
