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The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's

largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It is in an endorheic basin located between Europe and Asia.

Lake Baikal is an ancient, massive lake in the mountainous Russian region of Siberia, north of the Mongolian
border. Considered the deepest lake in the world, its circled by a network of hiking paths called the Great Baikal
Trail. The village of Listvyanka, on its western shoreline, is a popular starting point for summertime wildlife-spotting
tours, plus wintertime ice-skating and dog sledding.

The Yellow River


or Hung H is the third-longest river
in Asia, following the Yangtze River and Yenisei River, and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of
5,464 km. It flows from Qinghai province on the Plateau of Tibet to the Bo Hai, or the Gulf of Chihli.

The Fertile
East which
the Persian Gulf,
Syria, Lebanon,

Crescent is the region in the Middle


curves, like a quarter-moon shape, from
through modern-day southern Iraq,
Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt.

The Banaue
terraces that
in the
indigenous
referred to as

Rice Terraces are 2,000-year-old


were carved into the mountains of Ifugao
Philippines by ancestors of the
people. The Rice Terraces are commonly
the "Eighth Wonder of the World".

The Khyber
Afghanistan
northeastern
integral part of
oldest known

Pass is a mountain pass connecting


and Pakistan, cutting through the
part of the Spin Ghar mountains. An
the ancient Silk Road, it is one of the
passes in the world.

Mount Everest, also known in Nepal as Sagarmth and in Tibet as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain. It
is located in the Mahalangur mountain range in Nepal and Tibet. Its peak is 8,848 metres above sea level.

Borneo
within the
forests biome,
Southeast

lowland rain forest is an ecoregion,


tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf
of the large island of Borneo in
Asia.

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